The document describes Ms. Morales using an x-ray machine to determine whether various animals are vertebrates or invertebrates. Students are asked to click on images of a cat, fish, snail, dinosaur, jellyfish, eagle, worm, frog, person and determine if each has a backbone and is therefore a vertebrate. The document provides feedback on each answer, with the overall message being that vertebrates are animals that have a backbone.
2. We are going to use the x-ray machine to
see if some animals are vertebrates or
invertebrates
Vertebrates are
animals that have:
A BACKBONE
NO BACKBONE
3. Our first animal is a cat.
Do you think a cat is a
vertebrate?
Click on the cat
to x-ray it!
4. What about this fish?
Do you think a fish is a
vertebrate?
Click on the fish
to x-ray it!
5. What about this snail?
Do you think a snail is a
vertebrate?
Click on the snail
to x-ray it!
6. What about this
dinosaur? Do you think
dinosaurs were
vertebrates?
Click on the
dinosaur to x-ray
it!