Earth Science 11 Mysteries of the Shallow and the Deep

NAME: ______BLK: ______

Earth Science 11 Mysteries of the Shallow and the Deep

Your assignment:

1) Watch the BBC documentary Planet Earth: Seas of Life and get a feeling for the various forms of life that exist in our oceans.

2) Your job is to create a pamphlet or story book for a grade 5 student that describes TWO creatures that live in the oceans: one from each of the ocean zones: the benthic and pelagic. Here are some websites to get you started:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/ocean/twilight/

http://homepage.risd41.org/kreimers/stories/storyReader$14

http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep6c.htm

http://www.extremescience.com/DeepestFish.htm

3) Do research for your booklet/pamphlet. Summarize the following into the “NOTE SHEETS” to hand in with your booklet:

a)  Detailed picture labeling the parts of the creature

b)  A detailed description of the ocean zone it lives in

c)  Interesting facts about the creature; this should include

-  The habitat it lives in

-  The food that it eats

-  special hunting/foraging activities or behaviours

-  special adaptations that allow the creature to survive in it’s habitat

-  other interesting features – you choose

4) Create your booklet/pamphlet. Be sure to include

- Lots of colourful drawings, diagrams and/or pictures.

- Remember, these are grade 5 students and you need to use small easy to understand words for them to understand. Therefore, use your OWN words to write your descriptions

5) You must use a minimum of three sources and at least one of them must be a book.

6) Hand in

- a correct bibliography

- all Note Sheets

- your completed pamphlet/booklet

NOTE SHEETS FOR OCEAN PROJECT (Write NOTES in POINT FORM)

Ocean Creature:

Ocean Zone: Shallow Intermediate Deep

Description of Ocean Zone

Interesting facts about the creature; this should include:

-  The habitat it lives in

-  The food that it eats

-  special hunting/foraging activities or behaviours

-  special adaptations that allow the creature to survive in it’s habitat

-  other interesting features – you choose

-  use the back of this form as necessary