What Do Animals Use Their Saliva for?

LIFE SCIENCES

Curiosity trigger

The students will examine the properties of saliva. They will check why viper venom is toxic and what other ways there are in which animals use their saliva.

Curriculum and Skills

Work and Life Skills:

Creative problem-solving
Critical thinking and drawing conclusion

In this lesson, you will cover:

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS:
4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

You will need

a pack of sour jellies, a kitchen scale, gauze swabs or pads, small plastic cups, tweezers, and milk

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Authors

Author: Patrycja Wanat, Karolina Słota
Methodology: Agnieszka Staroń
Translation: Paweł Fabrowicz
Producer: Klaudia Chmura

Source

This is a modified version of a lesson plan created by the Children’s University Foundation under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Photo by Thomas Brown – Flickr: Bamboo Pit Viper (Cryptelytrops albolabris), published on Wikipedia under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

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