ProjectDirections

=Animal Design Project Directions=

Now that you have learned about animal adaptations, use what you have learned to design your own animal. You must design the animal to live in the area where you live, preferably outside the city limits in the countryside.

Think about what your animal will eat in this area. What is here for it to eat? (You can’t have it eat something that isn’t available… like penguins) How will it get its food? Is it a plant eater? Meat eater? Omnivore (plants and meat like us)? How will it find water? Drink water?

What are the temperatures and weather like here year around? What kind of body covering will work? How do other animals here adapt to the temperatures?

How will it move around? What is the ground and plant life it will move through like? Does it climb? Dig? Fly?

What does your animal use for shelter? Cave? Burrow? Brush? Trees? Nest? None?

What about color? Animals sometimes use color to hide, but sometimes to stand out so others leave them alone.

YOUR GRADE IS BASED ON HOW WELL YOU UNDERSTAND ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS. HOW DOES YOUR ANIMAL’S DESIGN SHOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS ARE?
1) Take a sheet of 12 x 18 white drawing paper and fold it into 8 sections. Use one section to design your animals eyes – think about how it will use its eyes. Draw several kinds until you design ones that work. Will it need them to see things far away? At night? Think of size and shape – use other animals to help you.

2) Now use another section of your paper to design your animals nose – does it need a great sense of smell or not? What are other animals noses like?

3) Then use a different section of your paper to design ears, legs, feet, mouth, body, head, tail, and all the parts your animal will need to survive (Use the front and back of your paper if you need to.

4) When you have ALL the parts designed think how you are going to put them all together.

5) Now on a piece of 9 x 12 drawing paper design and draw your new animal. Take your time and do careful, complete, well thought-out work. Don’t forget to color it an appropriate color. Give it a name – NOT a name like Fred or Fido – an animal name like deer or tiger – what is your new animal?

6) Now write an explanation of what your animal is. Explain what it uses all its parts for and how it uses them. Explain why you made it the color it is, why its body covering is that way – about a page hand written.