1. Innate Behaviors Are Behaviors That Are Inherited

Behavior Lift-a-Flap:

You will create a booklet with flaps that lift up to reveal behavior pictures underneath. You may use copy paper or construction paper. The flaps can be post-it notes, or cut out flaps. There should be post it notes on my bookcase in the back of the room. The pages of the booklet are listed below. Each page will receive the titles written below. Once you create your title, you will organize the flaps however you see fit on the page. On the outside of the flap, you will write the bold-faced information. On the underside of the flap, you will provide a definition of the behavior. Sometimes, the definition has already been provided, so if that is the case, you can skip this step. Directly on the booklet, under the flap, you can draw a picture of, or find a picture from the internet of the information/definition.

Title: Individuals can act on information and communicate it to others

Flaps:

1. Innate behaviors are behaviors that are inherited.

2. Learning occurs through interactions with the environment and other organisms.

Title: Behaviors in plants and animals are triggered by environmental cues and are vital to

reproduction, natural selection and survival

Flaps:

1. Estivation

2. Courtship

3. In phototropism in plants, changes in the light source lead to differential

growth, resulting in maximum exposure of leaves to light for photosynthesis.

4. In photoperiodism in plants, changes in the length of night regulate flowering

and preparation for winter.

Title: Cooperative behavior within or between populations contributes to the

survival of the populations

Flaps: 1. Niche and resource partitioning

2. Mutualistic relationships

Title: Organisms respond to changes in their environment through behavioral and

physiological mechanisms.

Flaps:

1. Hibernation and migration in animals

2. Taxis and kinesis in animals

3. Chemotaxis in bacteria

Title: In animals, internal and external signals regulate a variety of physiological responses

that synchronize with environmental cycles and cues.

Flaps:

1. Circadian rhythms, or the physiological cycle of about 24 hours that is present in all eukaryotes and persists even in the absence of external cues

2. Seasonal responses, such as hibernation, estivation and migration

3. In bacteria, internal and external signals regulate a variety of

physiological responses that synchronize with environmental cycles and cues.

i.e. Quorum sensing in bacteria

Title: Organisms exchange information with each other in response to internal changes and external cues, which can change behavior.

Flaps:

1. Fight or flight response

2. Predator warnings

3. Protection of young

Title: Living systems have a variety of signal behaviors or cues that produce changes in

the behavior of other organisms and can result in differential reproductive success. Flaps:

1. Territorial marking in mammals

2. Coloration in flowers

Title: Animals use visual, audible, tactile, electrical and chemical signals to indicate

dominance, find food, establish territory and ensure reproductive success.

Flaps:

1. Bee dances

2. Birds songs

3. Pack behavior in animals

4. Herd, flock, and schooling behavior in animals