Problem
You have been hired as the youngest cinema designer for the next Hollywood blockbuster movie! The movie involves visiting many different fantasy planets. The movie director wants to create realistic plants and animals for their scenes in these planets during the movie. As a designer you have been asked to choose one of the fantasy planets, learn about its environment and habitat, use your knowledge of plant and animal life cycles, inherited traits, learned behaviors, food webs, and adaptations to create a producer and consumer that could survive in the planets ecosystem.
Once you have created your organisms, you and your team will collaborate and create a food web that utilizes your designs. This will be presented to the director for final approval so they can be used in the next Hollywood blockbuster!
Once you have created your organisms, you and your team will collaborate and create a food web that utilizes your designs. This will be presented to the director for final approval so they can be used in the next Hollywood blockbuster!
The Planets
Steps & Checklist
- Read through each planets description and choose which one you will focus on.
- Use the description and your background knowledge to brainstorm some basic traits, adaptations, and behaviors your organism will need. A planning sheet has been provided for you to use to help get you started.
- Draw your organism.
- Create a diagram that provides description of the organism’s abilities.
- Create a model of your organism (optional)
- Write an expository or CER for each organism. Include its adaptations and what they have adapted to withstand in the environment.
- Present to the director.
Rubrics & Expectations
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