Introduction
In this Webquest you will explore eight different ecosystems throughout the world. You will take on the life of an animal in that ecosystem and face challenges that your certain animal might face, with a little twist. You must survive predetors, weather, and other tasks to move on to the next ecosystem.
You will nurture two cubs while surviving the intense winter in the alaskan mountains as a Mountaoin lion.
You will live in Greenland as a Polar bear trying to catch your dinner.
Survive in the body of an American Fuzzy Lop rabbit evading predators and hunters.
Scamper around an island in the middle of the Pacific as an Igauna searching for a good meal.
Fly around the desert sky scavenging for a meal to keep you alive in the life of a Vulture.
Avoid hunters through the dense grasslands as a Bison.
Try not to be eaten by the vicious Lions of the African savannah galloping around as a Gazelle.
Roam the South American tropical rainforest as a Sloth.
Task
Creative Writing: Complete a travel log of your different adventures of the different animals. Write the date and at least one paragraph of each adveture. State for problems you faced and how you delt with it. You must survive for five days, Get creative, have fun, and learn.
Creative Writing Powerpoint:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U6y_xC8KR7vbxA9CzIuGFNrroFpjW3y…
Test: at the end of you writing journey you will take a 16 question test. Two per ecosystem. If you answer both questions correctly for each place, you recieve a souvenier from that environment to add to your travel log.
Process
Test:
1.) The average temperature in the summer ranges from 10-15 degrees Celsius, True or False.
2.) Mountain lions require __________ room?
A.) a lot
B.) a little
Souvenier: You found an Emerald in a cave
3.) True or False there are 48 land species in the tundra.
4.) True or False. The Polar Bear is the largest land carnivore on earth.
Souvenier: Recieve an evergreen sapling.
5.) The Average Rainfall in the temperate forests is...
A.) 20-45 Inches
B.) 70-90 Centimeter
C.) 55-60 Centimeter
D.) 30-60 Inches
6.) The American Fuzzy Lop Rabbit is what kind of breed?
A.) Mixed
B.) Dwarf
C.) Large
D.) Unknown
Souvenier: Recieve a peice of pine wood bark
7.) There are ______________ Islands on earth.
8.) Iguana's average in length around...
A.) 5 meters
B.) 6.5 feet
C.) 7.8 inches
D.) 18 miles
Souvenier: You acheived a coconut.
9.) Deserts recieve less than ____________ a year.
10.) Is a vulture a pretador or scavenger?
Souvenier: You picked a bone up off the sand.
11.) True or False. There are 72 different species of gazelles.
12.) Winter temperture in a Savanna averages from...
A.) 30
B.) 40
C.) 60
D.) 70
Souvenier: You found a gazelle horn
13.) How many species of birds are in the grasslands?
A.) 400
B.) 300
C.) 200
D.) 700
14.) Are Bison Herbivores or Carnivores?
Souvenier: you found an arrow head out in the plains
15.) ________ % of all the plants in the rainforest are trees.
16.) Sloths sleep how many hours a day?
A.) 5
B.) 27
C.) 15-20
D.) 7-14
Souvenier: you picked a beautiful flower
Evaluation
Answers to the test:
1.) True.
2.) A lot.
3.) True
4.) True.
5.) D. 30-60 Inches
6.) B. Dwarf
7.) 1,000
8.) B. 6.5 feet
9.) 10 inches
10.) Scavenger
11.) False 19 species.
12.) 70
13.) 300
14.) Herbivores
15.) 70%
16.) C. 15-20
Credits
Davis Caudill: Made webquest and powerepoint
Hunter Howell: Made webquest and powerpoint
Sites:
Blue planet
National geographic
Defenders of the wild