Posts made in February 8th, 2009

Build your wild self

Posted on Feb 8, 2009 in Science Resources | 0 comments

Here’s a fun activity I used with my Science students the other week when we were looking at Science and ICT. It would fit in nicely into a lesson about adaptations, or variety of life.

With the Build Your Wild Self you can create an online version of yourself – then add animal parts such as antlers, wings, tentacles, different mouthparts and other odd body parts.

What I asked the students to then do was to take a screen grab of their creation and paste it into Word (or you could use the camera tool and grab it into IWB software).

Once in Word, we can start looking at our animal scientifically. I asked them to think about what their animal would eat. Where might it live? Based on its body parts how did it find food? Did it hunt? Think about each of the body parts they had added and describe their purpose.

You could also open this up into a larger creative-writing task and write a story about their animal.

If you like Build Your Wild Self, you’ll also like Switch Zoo, which can be used in a similar way.

Have fun!