Ms. Kaiter's Science Class

~Animal Adaptation~

Question: What functions do the claws, shell and mouth of a snapping turtle serve?

~Useful Animal Adaptation Links~

Animal Adaptation I

Animal Adaptation II

Animal Adaptation III

Camouflage as Defense

Animal Adaptation - Defense

Animal Adaptations and Survival

World Records of the Animal Kingdom

The National Geographic Animal Website

Animal Planet - Discovery Channel

Animal Adaptation Web Quest

Snottite / Snottite Photo

Biome Habitats

Extremophiles

Google

~Animal Adaptation Questions~

Question: List five (5) ways in which a polar bear is suited to live in a polar climate?

Question: Blind Yeti Crabs live near Hydrothermal Sea Vents. Why do they have hairy legs?

Question: Where and why do desert-dwelling Gila Monsters store their fat for energy reserves?

BEWARE: Their saliva is deadly!

Question: How does the Bombadier Beetle defend itself?

Question: How does the Texas Horned Lizard defend itself?

The Florida Manatee

Question: How do manatee nostrils help them swim underwater for a long time?

Question: List three (3) ways in which Tibetan yaks are suited to survive high up on Mount Everest?

Question: Why did elephants develop such long tusks, trunks and ears?

Question: What function might long legs and a rounded beak serve for the Roseate Spoonbill?

Question: How does the Colossal Squid defend itself? (Yes, it's real.)

And what function do these formidable tentacles and beak serve?

Question: Where's the Madagascar Narrow-Headed Frog above?

Question: What purpose does camouflage serve?

Question: Where's the Cryptic Frog below?

Master of Camouflage: Where's Waldo?

Question: Why does the nocturnal tarsier have such large eyes and ears?

Question: How and why does the flying squirrel accomplish flight?

Question: How and why does the Mexican Honey Pot Ant store its food?

Question: What are five (5) ways that camels are well-suited to live in a sandy desert?

Question: How does the male Tasmanian platypus defend itself and find prey?

OMG - What a strange conglomeration of features a duck-billed platypus has!

Question: How does the penguin protect itself from the extremely cold polar climate?

Question: How and why does the deep sea angler fish have a glow-in-the-dark light system?

Hey, if you lived at the bottom of the ocean, you'd look wierd too!

~Alien Adaptation~

Student 3-D Alien Photographs 2006-2007

Mercury	1a 1b	2	3	4	5
Venus	1a 1b	2	3a 3b	4	5a 5b
Mars	1	2	3a 3b	4	5
Asteroid Belt	1a 1b	2	3	4	5
Jupiter	1a 1b	2a 2b	3	4a 4b	5
Saturn	1a 1b 1c	2	3	4a 4b	5
Uranus	1a 1b	2	3	4	5a 5b
Neptune	1	2	3	4	5a 5b
Kuiper Belt	1	2	3	4	5a 5b
Oort Cloud	1a 1b	2	3	4	5
Moons	1	2	3	4	5a 5b 5c

Student 3-D Alien Animations 2007-2008

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~Copy of Alien Adaptation Worksheet~

Alien Adaptation

Name: ____________________________________ Section: ______

Assigned Planet/Belt/Moon: ____________________________________________

Now that you have researched your planet, belt or moon, you should have a basic understanding about the conditions at your place in our Solar System.

Directions: Fill in the questions below, then on a separate piece of paper, draw a colored pencil sketch of your alien based on ideas from this worksheet.

1. Will your alien be camouflaged with its surroundings? _______________

2. What color(s) will your alien be? _________________________________

3. If your alien lives on a planet, your alien should have the symbol for your planet somewhere on its body.

The symbol is: _______________

4. Your alien must have a name. Meet: _______________________________!

5. Your alien must eat a material/substance that naturally exists at your place in the solar system.

Will its food be solid, liquid or gas? _______________

6. What substance will it eat? ______________________________________________

7. Will your alien eat using teeth, tubes, funnels or other? _______________________

8. Your alien must stay warm or cool depending on the temperature. Is your planet hot, cold or both?
____________________________________

9. How will your alien accomplish temperature regulation?

___________________________________________________________________

10. Describe the surface of your planet/belt/moon.

____________________________________________________________________

11. Will your alien walk, fly, swim, spin, roll, climb, glide, sail, bounce, slide, float, jump, skate or use some other method for locomotion?

__________________________________________________

12. What body part will allow your alien to move in the manner selected above?

_________________________________________________

13. Will your alien have adaptations so that it resembles its environment?

Will it have: rings, a tilt, a tail, a belt, a red spot, a dark spot? (circle all that apply)

14. Is your alien predator or prey? _________ Will it attack or defend? _________

15. What adaptation will your alien use to attack or defend?

______________________________________________________________

16. Describe the eyes your alien will need? _________________________________

How many eyes: _________ Location of eyes: _____________________________

17. How will your alien communicate to others of its kind?

______________________________________________________________

18. What kind of exterior will your alien have? Skin – Fur – Metal – Scales - Other

_______________________________________________________

19. How will your alien deal with conditions at your place in the solar system, such as wind storms, acid rain, steep mountains, intense gravity or other extreme conditions?

___________________________________________________________

20. What kind of personality will your alien have? _________________________

21. Brainstorm ideas for other ways your alien will adapt to living in the conditions at its place in the solar system below:

__________________----------

Circle the conditions that apply to your planet/belt/moon

Select (circle) characteristics about your planet/belt/moon from the list below and determine how an alien life form would adapt to those conditions.
_______________________________________________

Close to the sun - Very far from the sun - Fast rotation around an axis - Slow rotation around an axis - Fast revolution around the sun - Slow revolution around the sun - Extreme range of temperature – Craters - Steep mountains - Rocky surface - Icy surface - Acid rain clouds - Hot temperature - Very cold temperature - Thin atmosphere - Thick atmospheric gases - Oceans of slushy ice - Extreme winds - Intensely strong gravity - Extremely weak gravity - No moons - Many moons - Some moons - Has rings - Lacks rings - Extreme tilt - Hurricane storms - Tail of gas and dust - Blue methane snow - Red or yellow or gray or orange or blue or green surface color – Other condition

For each condition circled above, state a body adaptation or feature that would suit the condition on your planet/belt/moon:

Condition:_____________________________________________________________
Adaptation: ____________________________________________________________

Condition:_____________________________________________________________
Adaptation:_____________________________________________________________

Condition:______________________________________________________________
Adaptation:______________________________________________________________

~Dreamweaver Instructions~

Dream

Dreamweaver Webpage Instructions

1. LOG IN using 6thstudent > 6th.

2. Open up the Kaiter Planet Project Alias folder.

3. Activate the template for your project by dragging and dropping it onto the Dreamweaver icon (green circle with a "d" inside).

4. Replace all the XXX's with acurate information about your planet/belt/moon.

5. Fill in the Ten Fun Facts table. (Insert > Table with 1 row, 1 column)

6. Import at least three (3) photos from Safari by dragging and dropping the photo into the "Saved Images" folder for your section located in the Kaiter Planet Project Alias folder.

Then put your curser where you want the image to go, and select:

Insert > Image

Note: Be sure to put a caption under each image.

7. Fill in the Alien Adaptation chart.

8. Insert > Image (for your animated alien gif).

9. Insert > Image (for your 3-D alien photograph).

10. Remember: Use Window > Properties to change fonts, color, text position, format, etc.

IMPORTANT: Please DO NOT move file or folder locations!

~Photoshop Instructions~

Photoshop Animated Alien Instructions

1. LOG IN using your regular name.

(Note: Do NOT log in using 6thstudent/6th to create your animation.)

2.Before starting the project, each student should create a new folder on his/her desktop called:

animatedalien

(Note: Each student will save the 6 or more slides for each step of the adaptations in that folder.)

3. Open up Photoshop (icon with one feather). [prompt: close]

4. Pull down Photoshop > Preferences , then select Plugins & Scratch Disks and then select first: Macintosh HD and then click OK.

5. Go to File > New and then select: 4 inches, 4 inches, 72 pixels/inch, then click OK.

6. Draw one ( 1 ) body part adaptation using draw features available on the tool bar.

7. File > Saveas the first body part using the naming system below:

For example, name it: 1bodymercury4.jpg

(slide# - bodypart - planet - section# - .format)

8. VERY IMPORTANT: SaveAs the file using Format > JPG.

9. Draw the second body part adaptation using draw features available on the tool bar and Saveas using the naming system described above:

10. File > SaveAs the second ( 2nd ) body part.

(For example, name it: 2facemercury4.jpg)

VERY IMPORTANT:

SaveAs the file using Format > JPG for all slides from now on.

11. Continue adding additional slides for each new body part adaptation, and File > SaveAs a JPG for EACH new slide:

(sample naming system for your slides below)

3eyesmercury4.jpg

4feetmercury4.jpg

5clawsmercury4.jpg

6mouthmercury4.jpg

~Image Ready Instructions~

Animated Alien in ImageReady

Set up:

1. Create a folder that has the images that will run in your animated gif. (File > New Folder)
Next, follow these steps:
2. Open ImageReady (icon with two feathers)
3. Select: File > Import > Folder as Frames
4. Using the browse window, choose the folder you set up in step #1.
5. Click Choose and ImageReady will load the images.
6. Use the selection options under each image to adjust length of time and other options (1 second works well).
7. Preview your animation by pressing the play triangle.
To Save:
8. Select: File > Save Optimized
**Be sure to use "SAVE OPTIMIZED"

9. Next, name your new animated gif:

For example, name it: heidikalien3.gif

(yourfirstname-lastinitial-alien-section.gif)
10. Log in as 6thstudent/6th. Within a web page, insert your animated gif.
Insert > Image

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