{"id":1799,"date":"2017-08-25T03:19:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T03:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2017-08-25T03:19:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T03:19:05","slug":"heat-and-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/heat-and-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat and Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article contains affiliate links.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This term the topic is heat, and I&#8217;ve gone through some concepts that relate to <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2017\/07\/28\/heat-on-the-move\/\">physics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2017\/08\/12\/reversible-and-irreversible-change\/\">chemistry<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2017\/08\/20\/geology-rocks\/\">geology<\/a>. Now I&#8217;m moving on to biology!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Earth&#8217;s Temperature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1803\" src=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2306-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2306\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2306-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2306-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2306-1024x915.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first thing I went through in this class was the reason that Earth has seasons. The seasons are due to the tilt of the earth. I used this ball of yarn with a knitting needle in it to represent Earth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=lollies-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B004IYKU5Y&amp;asins=B004IYKU5Y&amp;linkId=6fec634540cd66ac97fa7c47b9bb4c55&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=lollies-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01E36IWRO&amp;asins=B01E36IWRO&amp;linkId=dea5917a3fa554a0461a71c6551db8f0&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=false&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This knitting needle came from a Moulin Roty sewing kit. It is a really cute kit that I like very much, but if you don&#8217;t want to buy the whole kit, you can just buy wooden knitting needles like the ones shown above. I like these as opposed to just a stick, because you can easily see the ball pointing away or towards the sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I showed that as I walked around the ball representing the sun holding the ball of yarn, that the southern hemisphere pointed at the sun for a fourth of the orbit and for another fourth of the orbit the northern hemisphere is pointed towards the sun. When this happens the hemisphere pointing towards the sun experiences summer. The opposite hemisphere experiences winter because it is pointed away from the sun. The rest of the time the hemispheres experience fall and spring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1801 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/temp-300x139.png\" alt=\"temp\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/temp-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/temp.png 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Earth&#8217;s temperature has a very large range, but a human&#8217;s body temperature must stay very close to 37 degrees. Birds and mammals have very narrow body temperature ranges, but some animals like fish can live with a much wider range of body temperatures. Animals are grouped as endotherms, which mostly use physiological processes to regulate their body temperature and ectotherms, which use mostly behavior to regulate their body temperature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Body Temperature Regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For this part of class, I asked the kids for some ways that animals can warm up or cool down. Then we went over behavioral and physiological methods. I had slides with pictures on them to help the kids remember the different methods. At the end of class I called kids up in groups of four. I chose an animal, like dogs for example, and then told the kids to pretend they were that animal. I told them they were very hot or very cold and asked them what they would do to cool down or warm up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Behavioral<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Move to a warm spot like a rock that has been heated by the sun or move to a cool spot underground<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Go into the water to cool down<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Change shape to alter surface area to volume ratio\/Huddling up with other animals<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hibernation \/ Estivation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Diurnal\/ Nocturnal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Migration<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Move muscles<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Put on clothes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Physiological<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sweating (horses, gorillas, chimpanzees, humans) \/ Panting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Goosebumps\/puffing up feathers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shivering<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grow more fur in the winter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more STEAM ideas, click on the STEAM tab above, and take a look at my <a href=\"https:\/\/au.pinterest.com\/stephhesselson\/steam-activities\/\">Pinterest board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 300px; left: 271px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 1063px; left: 271px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 220px; left: 271px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 1063px; left: 271px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article contains affiliate links. &nbsp; This term the topic is heat, and I&#8217;ve gone through some concepts that relate to physics, chemistry, and geology. 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