Adaptations
Click here to access Achievement Standard 2.3, the clarifications for the standard, and exemplars of other students' work.
In this internal, you have the freedom to choose which animals you would like to research BUT there are some words of warning:
1) Choose an area where you find the animals interesting e.g. sea, prairie, desert, Arctic, savannah. This is important because it means they will all share similar environmental conditions and have shared challenges and limitations.
2) Choose an individual from each functional group: carnivore, omnivore, herbivore. Choose ones that have plenty of accessible information. It will help to search Google for your animal + digestive physiology or anatomy. If nothing comes up, it will probably be too hard.
3) DOUBLE CHECK you have picked mammals and that they belong to the right group. Search your animal + diet and if you see items that aren't right, e.g. your herbivorous mouse's diet includes eggs and nestlings (i.e. birds), you should probably pick something else.
4) Now, you can start writing and researching. Introduce a generalised mammalian digestive system first. This will help you see where the variations are for your chosen animals.
In this internal, you have the freedom to choose which animals you would like to research BUT there are some words of warning:
1) Choose an area where you find the animals interesting e.g. sea, prairie, desert, Arctic, savannah. This is important because it means they will all share similar environmental conditions and have shared challenges and limitations.
2) Choose an individual from each functional group: carnivore, omnivore, herbivore. Choose ones that have plenty of accessible information. It will help to search Google for your animal + digestive physiology or anatomy. If nothing comes up, it will probably be too hard.
3) DOUBLE CHECK you have picked mammals and that they belong to the right group. Search your animal + diet and if you see items that aren't right, e.g. your herbivorous mouse's diet includes eggs and nestlings (i.e. birds), you should probably pick something else.
4) Now, you can start writing and researching. Introduce a generalised mammalian digestive system first. This will help you see where the variations are for your chosen animals.
Recommended Links:
Youtube "Inside Nature's Giants" - contains most episodes of a BBC documentary showing expert dissecting and commenting on the physiology of a variety of large animals: elephant, whale, giraffe, lions and tigers, polar bear, camel, horse, baboon, hippopotamus and kangaroo. Warning: some of the footage is VERY graphic so avoid if you think this will upset you. Out of interest, some non-mammals they have also filmed are the crocodile, great white shark, python, giant squid, cassowary and turtle. Do not select these... they are not mammals.
Comparative Anatomy of Eating - summarises differences between the carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Note the source - "VegSource - Your Source for All Things Vegetarian." Does thinking about who is writing this change how you feel about their data about humans? Are they credible and unbiased?
Youtube "Inside Nature's Giants" - contains most episodes of a BBC documentary showing expert dissecting and commenting on the physiology of a variety of large animals: elephant, whale, giraffe, lions and tigers, polar bear, camel, horse, baboon, hippopotamus and kangaroo. Warning: some of the footage is VERY graphic so avoid if you think this will upset you. Out of interest, some non-mammals they have also filmed are the crocodile, great white shark, python, giant squid, cassowary and turtle. Do not select these... they are not mammals.
Comparative Anatomy of Eating - summarises differences between the carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Note the source - "VegSource - Your Source for All Things Vegetarian." Does thinking about who is writing this change how you feel about their data about humans? Are they credible and unbiased?