How Animals Grow Model
Otter Video
Question: How do animals grow?
Criteria For Success:
Identify where animals get their molecules to grow.
Explain what they do with these molecules
Explain how they use these molecules to grow.
Do animals use all the matter and molecules from food to grow?
What are the two ways animals use molecules from food?
What happens to the molecules from food that animals do not use?
We know where animals get the food molecules they need for growth—from the body molecules of the plants and animals they eat.
What do the animals do with those food molecules? We’ll use the simulation to find out.
Click on the link to get to the Ecosystem Restoration Simulation: https://apps.learning.amplify.com/ecosystemrestoration/#/
Directions: Ecosystem Restoration Simulation
Press the PLAY button to run the Simulation. Change the speed to 0.5x to better observe.
Observe what happens when the animals eat.
Use your observations of the Simulation to help you answer the questions below.
In the simulation, how can you tell if an animal is growing?
What happens to food matter after an animal eats it?
Source 1: Matter Makes It All Up
According to the text, how do animals grow? Use your own words.
Animals grow by _______________________
Source 2: Ecosystem Restoration Simulation
What did you observe in the sim about how animals grow?
Animals grow by _______________________
Now, it’s time to put together our ideas to form a new understanding or synthesize! Based on information from both sources, what ideas do you have about how animals grow?
Use the words: food, molecules, and body in your answer.
Animals grow by _______________________
Check For Understanding
Other than using food molecules to grow, what do animals use food molecules for?
Use the words: energy, move, and grow in your answer.
Animals also use food molecules to _______________________
What’s happening to the rabbits in this picture?
What’s happening to the rabbits in this picture?
Select all that apply.
What’s happening to the rabbits in this picture?
Using the images from the Sim below, explain what’s happening to the rabbits and foxes by answering the questions below.
What do the cubes represent?
What is happening to the rabbit in this picture?
What does the yellow represent? What is happening to it?
Based on what happened in the sim, what happens to food molecules in an animal’s body?
2 things happen when animals eat food and use the food molecules. Explain both.
Click on the link to get to the Ecosystem Restoration Simulation: https://apps.learning.amplify.com/ecosystemrestoration/#
What are animals made of?
What do animals need to grow?
What happens to food after an animal eats it? Be sure to include two things that happen.
What does the picture on the right show or represent?
