Phenomena Padlet by Gracie Sinclair

Cooperative Behavior in Animals

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:17:04 UTC

Cooperative behavior in animals is when animals work together to create a system that contributes to their survival. Many scientists do not know why certain animals are cooperative and some are not. Ants, for example all have a job and work together within their system to gather food, get prepared for an upcoming change, or protect themselves. Each ant has its own job and they come together to form a system. This is the cooperative behavior that many animals, such as wolves have.

Is Cooperative Behavior Evolutionary?

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:22:50 UTC

This resource discusses a possibility that Charles Darwin thought possible which is that cooperative behavior in animals was evolutionary. They originally were not like this, but evolved for their survival to work together.

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.309.5731.93

Wolves Exhibiting Cooperative Behavior in the Wild

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:31:14 UTC

Attached is an article where scientists share their observations made on wolves in the wild. They discuss their social skills and how they act with one another within a system. They share their recorded data from their observations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6912837/

Why Do Animals Team Up?

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:33:51 UTC

The attached video explains about why animals team up and a little on how they work together or why. For example, many animals work together and form systems because of the weather or climate that they are in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2_npLl4Cyc

Limits of Cooperative Behavior

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:40:33 UTC

This resource discusses the idea of the limitations of cooperative behavior. Do animals keep track of favors done for another? Can animals take into account previous interactions with others? This article is exploring the extent of cooperative behavior in animals and how far it goes compared to us.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1100291108

Across the Animal Kingdom

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:45:06 UTC

This resource explores the different animals that exhibit cooperative behavior in the animal kingdom. They look at a couple different systems of behavioral cooperation like humans, bats, ants, and fish.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/birds_do_it_bats_do_it

Student Standards

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:50:41 UTC

The standard that connects to this scientific phenomenon is 3-LS2-1. This standard wants students to construct and support an argument that some animals form groups to help members survive. These "groups" could be ants giving jobs within a colony or wolves having different roles in a pack. This could be supporting how animals form systems to gather food, defend themselves, or survive changes in their ecosystem. Students must use evidence to support this idea that animals form systems.

Third Grade

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 16:55:41 UTC

This phenomenon most closely connects to third grade standards when learning about systems of animals and how they work together. Although, I am sure this phenomenon could work with other grade levels and could connect to different standards. For example, it could really work and connect with any standard that is studying animal systems and Life Science.

Explanation of Phenomenon

gss013_ — 2023-11-16 17:08:21 UTC

Cooperative Behavior:

Cooperative behavior is when animals work together. Cooperation means working together to get the same goal. Our behavior is how we act and what we do. This means how animals act and what we do to work together to reach the same goal.

What They Do:

You might ask why animals work together. Just like us, animals need shelter and food. They cannot go to the grocery store to get it. They must work to find it or obtain it for their survival. Some animals, like ants work together to do this for their entire system of ants.

They also work together to prepare themselves for their environment to change. They work together to build their home, an ant pile.

Some animals fight with others and have to form packs to defend themselves, like wolves. Animals work together for many different reasons in many different ways.

Different Animals:

Some animals, like ants and wolves show cooperative behavior. Some animals do not. Some work by themselves to survive.