9 September 2012

Final Product!


Photographs showing different views of my organism from 4 different angles
Front view













Back view

 Side view (right)












 Side view (left)


Photographs showing key adaptive features of my organism (You may add on more cells if you have more pictures.  Just copy and paste one of the rows)

Adaptive feature 1 (Black eyes & Stiff feathers)











Adaptive feature 2 (Sharp Beak)



 Adaptive feature 3 (Ring around neck)














 Adaptive feature 4 (White Body)







Adaptive feature 5 ( Hump )










Adaptive features 6 (Thick feathers)

Final Draft!




Adaptations that enable the organism fulfill its role effectively in the food chain: 

  • It has a ring around its neck to brandish at its predator when threaten. 
  • It also has wings to take flight immediately when it sensed its predator coming. 
  • There is also a sharp beak to tear the prey apart when it comes to feeding. Assisting it is its razor sharp teeth to tear the prey’s big head.
  •  It has a thick tongue to prevent it from getting poked by its prey’s needle-like ears when eating. 
  • It also produced saliva that is resistance to the prey’s poison. 
  • Its feathers are also serrated at the tips to reduces the amount of noise it creates while flapping its wings when taking a flight towards the prey.

Adaptations that enable the organism to survive successfully in its habitat: 

  • It will hibernate if food is scarce and will also store food when there is plenty of food in its hump. 
  • Its legs and ears are short as bodies with long legs, ears, and tails lose warmth faster than those with shorter limbs to better conserve heat. 
  • It also has ear-like feather tuffs which are barely visible, giving the owl's head its typically rounded outline and this help in camouflaging. 
  • It also has a white coat to helps camouflage itself when perched on snow. 
  • It has thick feathers which cover its body as feathers helps to insulate the owl's entire body, including its legs and toes, enabling it to maintain a body temperature of 38 - 40 degrees Celsius. 
  • Lastly, it has large black eyes with stiff feathers around them as this design of the eyes and the feathers around them helps in reflecting the sound waves to the openings of the ears which are located right behind them.

8 September 2012

Making My 3D Object

1) I crush the newspapers into the shape I want my organism to be.
2) Then I masking tape it to let the newspapers to have a fix shape.



3) Then I paper mache it to make the surface smoother for painting.
4) I painted and sprayed painted it white. (The chemicals got me high).
5) I twist a wire into a ring to be put around the owl's neck.
6) I stick on the white feathers, draw the eyes, make the beak...

TA-DA

THE FINAL PRODUCT

7 September 2012

Materials For 3D Object

These are all the materials I used to make my object:
White Acrylic Paint

White Gloss

Glue

White Feathers

Paint Brush

And of course...

Newspapers

28 August 2012

2nd Draft of Organism


Since my groupmates have commented that I should have more adaptations, I added lots more! They even suggest adaptations on how to kill the preys for example razor sharp teeth to tear the head etc. They also told me to take out some adaptations as they are too weird/unreal... Thus, I have done a 2nd draft!

Here are my groupmates comments -

Hong Yee: How is the head supposed to be detatched from the head and stuck back again? It kinda seems like a fantasy so i think you have to explain that part, the spring part...i was thinking does your animal really has a spring in its body? I also think you should explain how the saliva produce resistance against prey’s poison.

Ji Won: How can you camouflage when there are no grass? I think you should amend that part.

Yi Yin: So u r small? U nd to be bigger than hong yee rite?

Bohui: I think that the stripe part is weird because with the stripes where can you camouflage in? The tundra biome is mostly snow which is white.

Conghui: the fake eye, can be the design on the body cos fake eye a bit weird... could say that the marking/whatever scares predators away...

22 August 2012

1st Draft of Organism

This is from the force-fitting activities and here are my group mates comments -

Hong Yee: Sarah, the rubrics say that is to get excellent, there must be at least 4 adaptation the animal should have for environment and in the food web. As I have a big head to prevent you from eating me, you can tear me apart using some kind of adaptation before eating me.

Ji Won: Sarah, you should add more adaptations. I would suggest about the cold climate, you can have adaptations to keep warm. 

Yi Yin: I think you should say why you choose your organism to be pink. The colour pink can be easily spotted, making the organism more visible to predators.

Conghui: i think camouflaging should be in a lighter colour, like white and the flowery thing can be used to attract mate.

Bohui: I think that the the markings are a bit weird because unless the organism is able to ‘read’ the milimetres marking, then i think the part that stores water could have a strip of transparent part and the organism can just see how much water it needs.

Food Web & Food Chains


Food Chain 1



Food Chain 2


Food Chain 3
Food Web


Roles We're Playing


After much discussion with my group mates, we have come to the agreement of the roles - 

Producers : Yi Yin, Bo Hui 

Primary Consumer: Hong Yee

Secondary Consumer: Sarah

Tertiary Consumer: Ji Won

Decomposer: Conghui