• Identify changes in ecosystems that can affect the overall survival of an animal species.
• Identify characteristics in an animal species that allows them to adapt to changes in ecosystems
• Identify the basic needs of animals. (food, water, shelter, air)
• Complete an engineering design challenge demonstrating an animal’s structure that can function in a changed ecosystem.
• Work collaboratively with a group of peers
• Identify characteristics of geographical locations
• Create 3D model of an animal habitat

Thin Ice: A Polar Bear's Plight 30 Min.

• Common Name
• Scientific Name
• Type/Species

• How much do they eat a day?
• What do they eat?

• Size
• Body weight
• Behavior:  Are they aggressive, gentle?
• Gender differences:  Do they behave differently?
• Territory:  How do they establish

• food
• shelter from weather and predators
• water
• a place to raise young
• Range of temperature they prefer?
• Wet or dry environment?
• Prefer light or dark?
• What makes up their habitat;  water, air, trees, rain, snow, sand, rocks, plants
• What type of habitat; oceans, forests, deserts, tundra, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. (Remember even under water, there can be habitats such as shallow-water or deep-water ) 
• Rainfall average
• Description of trees and plants

• How much space do they require in a zoo?
• How do they interact with one another and with their physical environment. 
• Hunting:  Do they  hunt and what do they hunt?
• Lifespan:  How long do they live?
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• Structural adaptations: meaning it is a physical part of the organism. (Seals have flippers to navigate water )
• Physiological  adaptations:  They don't show from the outside. (efficient kidneys for desert animals like kangaroo rats)
• Behavioral adaptations:  affecting the way an organism acts (Bears hibernate to escape cold)

• How does your animal fight Boredom? 

•  Create ingenious natural-looking toys and devices for zoo animals:  Think “outside the human,” by thinking like your animal. Design and build cognitive / functional tools – “toys” — that enrich the lives of your animal living in your zoo-by engaging their behaviors, cognitive thought processes and perceptions. Watch the following video:  https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-brookfield-zoo-toy-designers-20140815-column.html  2:35  
• What could your animal use to remind them of something they would do in their natural habitat and to help them relieve boredom of living in a small, confined space.  (P.E./Health)
  
  
• https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/06/nyregion/recall-of-the-wild-fighting-boredom-zoos-play-to-the-inmates-instincts.html
  
  

• Define the Problem.  WHO needs WHAT because of  WHY statement
  
  
• Do Background Research : Label a new page background and begin sketching and taking notes
  • What needs to be in your habitat?
  • what is the weather like that you must recreate for you animal and how will you do that?
  • How will you make the rocks, trees, and grass elements for you habitat?
  • How will you provide water and food?
  • Do you have an area for your animals to sleep?