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Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, and Octopuses Instructional VideoSimple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, and Octopuses Instructional Video
Publisher
Crash Course
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
11:31
Audiences
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Duration
15 mins
Instructional Strategy
Direct Instruction
Technology
Video
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Internet Access
Year
2012
Instructional Video

Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, and Octopuses

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A video focusing on the evolutionary history of simple animals reveals some amazing facts. Did you know that some deep-water sponges can live to be more than 200 years old? The narrator of the film explains what simple animals means, analyzes their tissue complexity, or lack thereof, and looks at the structures of the simplest to the most complex simple animals like sponges, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, mollusks, octopuses, and squid. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

sponges, jellyfish, octopuses

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have pairs research one of the mentioned organisms and present their findings to the class

Classroom Considerations

  • Video assumes pupils understand the hierarchy of cells, tissues, organs, etc.
  • Expects that scholars understand the classification of Phyla
  • Video 22 in a series of 40
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • Other videos related to simple animals are embedded within this video
  • Video contains a table of contents if teachers want to reshow certain segments

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RST.9-10.1

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