Design an Animal
Learning Objectives/Lesson Goals	Students will design and draw animals suited to live in a cold, dark environment under great pressure.
WHERE	Classroom
WHO	Classroom Volunteers
MATERIALS	Dark blue/black construction paper (folded into thirds) Oil pastels
ACTIVITIES	Teacher/parent will read from an oceans book. Teacher/parent will describe adaptations sea animals have made to live in the different ocean zones. Deep Sea Notes on Adaptations Teacher/parent will illustrate assorted adaptations on chart paper or white board. Teacher/parent will model 3 part activity. Each student gets a paper and pastels and draws a head ONLY of a sea creature including some adaptations as discussed. Papers are collected by helpers making sure that child’s name is at the bottom of that third. Papers are redistributed to different students who do NOT look at previous head drawing and they draw a middle ONLY of a sea creature including adaptations as discussed, in the middle third of the paper. Papers are collected again making sure that child’s name is at the bottom of that third. Papers are redistributed a last time to different students who do NOT look at the middle and they draw the end of a sea creature including adaptations as discussed, in the last third of the paper. When everyone has finished, papers are collected and the teacher “reveals” fantastic sea creatures. If time remains, students could write about their sea creatures. *NOTE: they “own” the fish that they drew the head of.
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