Creating a World - Adaptations

This is a twist on the standard - design your own animal with its own adaptations to its environment. The lesson starts with identifying adaptations of a polar bear

Then a short video of how a human is adapted to its environment. The kids LOVE this video. Narrated by David Attenborough and is gripping

Then students design their own animal

Then students design animals that are adapted particularly to hunt that first animal. Keeping in mind giving that animal adaptations to the environment as well. Students then build up a food web of animals all adapted to hunting and evading each other.

Comes with a powerpoint and differentiation material. This lesson has resulted in excellent observations for myself in several schools I have worked at.