Adaptation resources

Students read about the adaptations of a fictitious dinosaur, and then draw and colour in a picture of a dinosaur that illustrates these adaptations.

Task: identify two features that enable a sea lion to live in water. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Task: Use close observation of photos and prior knowledge, to write explanations of how the special features of animal tongues help animals survive in their habitats. Assessment focus: structure and function.

Task: Identify adaptations of 3 animals that live under the soil, and design an animal that could live underground. Self-assess the design by considering given criteria. Assessment focus: adaptations that enable an animal to live underground.

Task: Describe on a chart how a duck's features help it to survive, then infer what might happen if these features were changed in some way. Assessment focus: how adaptations aid survival.

Task: choose 3 features of a mosquito and say how they help it survive. Assessment focus: adaptations for survival.

For this NEMP task students write about parts of the snail that help it survive.

For this NEMP task students write about the parts of a praying mantis that help it survives.

Students explain the function of the veins, waxy layer of the upper surface of the leaf, how the shape of the leaf traps light energy and why the upper surface of the leaf is a darker green than the lower surface.

Diagrams of four different vertebrate tails are illustrated. Students are required to name an animal that has each type of tail, and then explain how the animal uses this type of tail.

Four different vertebrate animals are illustrated. For each animal the student needs to name the body part used by each animal to move, and then explain how this part makes the animal move.

Using a diagram of a crab, students explain some of the crab's adaptations.

Task: students write the sense related to various parts of a dog's body. Assessment focus: sensory organs.