LTLT#3 Final Adaptations Project

Outline/Planning Sheet

LTLT#3 Final Adaptations Project:

Outline & Planning Sheet

Name: _____________________________ Date: ___________________ Class Period: ____________________

Use this planning sheet to answer the questions, and begin to draft your article

Paragraph 1: Introduce your article

a.      Give your organism a name

b.      What is a fossil? Describe or define the word fossil.

c.      Who discovered the organism? What are their names?

Paragraph 2: Provide some background or interesting details about the trip

a.      When was this organism discovered?

b.      Where was this organism discovered??

c.      How old is the organism?

d.     Did the scientists find any other organisms near or around the big find?

Paragraph 3: Findings

a.      Describe your organism’s physical features: what traits does it have? List 5-7 traits

1.                                                                             5.

2.                                                                             6.

3.                                                                             7.

4.

b.      What is a trait? Describe or define it.

c.      Where did the animal live?

d.     What did it eat? (Predator/prey)

e.      What ate it? (Predator/prey)

f.       Did it have any competition?

g.      Did it work with another other organisms? (Mutualism)

h.     Was it neighbors with any other organisms? (Commensalism)

Paragraph 4 Animal Adaptations 

a.      How does this organism get its food?

b.     What parts of its body helps it get food?

c.      How does it protect itself from predators?

d.     How does it survive?

e.      How does your organism protect itself? Does it run fast? Is it big? Is it armored?

Paragraph 5: Evolution & Changes over time

a.      What is the theory of evolution? Define or describe it.

b.      Does your animal have any ancestors? What are their names?

c.      How has your organism has changed over time? What was it like in the past?

d.     What might have happened to make it change?

e.      Did the environment change, did the climate or weather change, was there a flood or a drought?

Paragraph 6: Conclude your article

a.      What are the people going to do with their newly discovered organism??

b.      Are they going to sell it, study it, put it in a museum?

c.       How has finding the organism changed their lives? Are they famous?

d.      What are they going to do next?