Animal Inquiry

Help us to save endangered animal species by understanding how animals relate to human beings and other creatures.
Your team mission is to earn points that will help to save animals which need it.

Every 100 points you earn will take an animal off the endangered list. How many species can your team save?

Gold Medal Work

This cover page is by "Thomas the Think Engine". You can see the thought he has put into this work. He did three plans before

he got it to this standard. When you look at the success criteria you will see that he has followed all of them. Great work, Thomas.

Here's Caleb's cover page. The entire page is full of colour and action. Everything relates to the topic, including the lettering Caleb has used for the title. Nice work, Caleb.

I think Maddy's cover page reflects the topic and her personality really strongly. When she was recently in Europe, she loved Switzerland and Austria for their mountains. Every part of the page has a purpose and contributes to the bigger story. I also like the fact that Thomas taught her about shading the sky from dark to light to achieve an attractive effect. Really nice, Maddy.

Knowledge

Choose two or more...Use the Alphabet key to brainstorm facts you know about your animal.

Use books or the Internet to make a list of interesting facts about your animal.

List and illustrate the relatives of your chosen animal.

Illustrate and label your animal.
Write ‘what, where and when’ questions about your animal (two of each).

Animal Survival Points:

Gold = 5, Silver = 3, Bronze = 1

Gold Medal Work

Zia didn't need her Visual Language skills to get a top result in this What? Where? When? knowledge activity. Her questions show she has a lot

of knowledge about her animal already. Well done Zia.

Luce has put an enormous amount of information in her alphabet key. I'd never heard of Swift Foxes, but Lucy has taught me a lot about them. She has been very creative with some of the difficult letters of the alphabet. Nice work, Luce, keep up your high standards.

Notice in this fine piece of work by Thomas that he hasn't just put basic labels on his work, like 'ears', 'nose' etc, he has included greater detail about the different body parts. Another masterpiece, Thomas, you are really striving for excellence.

Understanding

Choose one or more...
Write a brief outline of how your animal relates to other creatures. Draw a picture to explain.

Draw a flow chart to show your animal's life cycle. Use pictures and captions.

Write about five jobs where understanding your animal isimportant. Explain why.

Animal Survival Points:
Gold = 10, Silver = 6, Bronze = 3

Gold Medal Work

Here is Zia's Arctic Fox life cycle. Her research has been sound and this is all in Zia's own words, with plenty of detail. Congratulations on another gold medal, Zia.

Applying

Choose two or more...

Show where your animal lives on a world map.

Draw a four-frame comic strip to show how your animal gets its food. Use speech bubbles and captions.

How does your animal affect /influence the people of the parts of the world they live in?

Create a T Chart of the advantages and disadvantages of this animal to their environment.

Design a poster or advertisement to wake people up to caring about the protection of this animal.

Animal Survival Points:
Gold = 15, Silver = 9, Bronze = 5

Gold Medal Work

This is some top work from Ollie. He has conveyed a lot of information, mainly just using pictures and a few words to fill the gaps that the pictures can't tell. His pictures are bold and the overall design is stunning..

Analysing

Choose two or more...

What information would you give someone who was going to hunt your animal? What special training and equipment would they need?

Complete a PMI chart about your animal.

What if there were no humans? What would change? How? What then?

Animal Survival Points:
Gold = 20, Silver = 12, Bronze = 7

Synthesising

Choose one or more...

Design, plan and build a predator-free and comfortable house for your animal.

Make up a quiz or puzzle about your animal and its relationships with other creatures for other students to solve. The person doing your quiz or puzzle should be able to learn about how your animal relates to other creatures.

Animal Survival Points:
Gold = 25, Silver = 15, Bronze = 9

Evaluating

Choose two or more...

Why has this animal survived when others have become extinct?
Think about this in terms of its relationships with humans and other creatures. Draw and label a diagram to show this.

How effective have been humans in helping to save this animal? What could you do to help? Make a list.

What might happen if this the world becomes overpopulated with your animal? Use a brace map to show this.

Why might your animal not survive? Use a brace map to show this.

Animal Survival Points:
Gold = 30, Silver = 18, Bronze = 11