An Internet Treasure Hunt for snails.

Created by Anastasia Melnushkina and Victoria Nigai.

Introduction.

For this class you will need to learn about snails, which are one of the earliest known types of animals in the world. They are able to adapt to a variety of living conditions and they don’t require large amounts of food. They have been able to continually evolve to survive the conditions around them which many researchers find to be very fascinating. The Web allows you to discover way more than you may have ever thought possible and is a great complement to the materials found in the library. Below is a list of questions about the topic of the seminar. Surf the links on this page to find answers to the questions.

Questions.

1.      What is a snail? What length can it usually reach?

2.      How fast can garden snails move?

3.      How does a snail move? Can it move on sharp surfaces?

4.      What kind of matter snails eat: plant or animal?

  5.   Are snails born with shells?

6.      Are snails male or female?

7.      How does a snail eat? Does it use any specialized eating tools? What is the radula?

8.     What is the disadvantage of snail body structure? Which organ of senses they don’t have?

9.      Does Apple snails exist in one color or do they have different variants of appearance?

10.  Can snails be used in agriculture? What is a heliciculture?

The Internet Resources.

1.      http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/sis/main/sis/research/gr.3research/snails/snailquestions.html

2.      http://www.planetinverts.com/apple_snail.html

3.      http://www.snail-world.com/Snail-Facts.html

4.      http://www.mypetsnail.com/

5.      http://www.snail-world.com/

6.      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliciculture

7.      http://a-z-animals.com/animals/snail/

8.      http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/snail.aspx

9.      http://mentalfloss.com/article/48796/are-snails-born-shells

10.  http://lhsfoss.org/fossweb/teachers/materials/plantanimal/landsnails.html

The Big Question.

What is your attitude to snails? Do you consider them as useful and quite amusing animals or not? Do you suppose that snails' survival in wild nature is successful? Do you think snails can be used in medical purposes?Would you like to have a pet snail?