Animal_Kingdom

**Animal Kingdom**

 * Engineering Challenges**

Changing environments and helping animals adapt


 * Engineering problem: The town you live in has built a new dam on the local river. The problem is that fish are not able to migrate back up the river due to the dangers associated with the dam. Come up with an innovative design to help the fish safely migrate over the dam.


 * Resources: Some engineers have designed fish ladders to help migrating fish safely navigate over the dam. Another engineering firm designed a "Salmon Cannon" to help salmon migrate. See the following resources for more information:
 * National Ocean Service: What is a Fish Ladder. []
 * How Stuff Works: Fish Ladders: []
 * Newsy Article on the "Salmon Cannon" by Swoosh Innovations: []

Borrowing ideas from animals to meet human needs.
 * Engineering Problem: Design footwear for a triathlon (running, swimming, biking) using ideas from animals that run and swim well.
 * Resources:
 * Animal Feet Game with Images: @http://www.sporcle.com/games/lharpo42/animal_feet

Animal Homes


 * Engineering Problem: Design of a new zoo exhibit. The city that you live in is expanding its zoo and it would like to move its African Savannah exhibit (Aardvark, African Painted Dog, Klipspringer, Red River Hog, and Reticulated Giraffes) to the larger 4-acre space that the zoo is expanding into. Then they would like to move another species of animal into the old 2-acre African Savannah exhibit. They are asking interested individuals to submit proposals for designs renovating the old African Exhibit.


 * What do you recommend? What species of animal do you think should be moved into here and why? What will need to be changed?
 * Based on Minnesota Zoo’s Design Challenge: []

Weblinks from Stations: Movie for Language Arts Activity
 * Dolphins Speaking: @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii5qexkuF4E&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Site for Reading Activity:
 * ** kids.nationalgeographic.com  **

Site for Science and Map Activity:
 * [|**http://dictionary.reference.com/**]

Sites for Trading Cards:
 * [|**http://www.kidsbiology.com/**]
 * [|**http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/facts/**]