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.

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

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

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...

Sketch #2

Sketch #1

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

Discussion (I)

Discussion (I)

Since the Tundra Biome has a very cold atmosphere, we need adaptations of the organisms for the cold climate.

Hong Yee: The organisms must have outer-covering, for example warm furs or blubber. 
Hong Yee: Conghui wat is your organism? Like wat is ur progress?

Ji Won: I suggest an organism to be hibernating in the summer--> Hong Yee

Hong Yee: yup i am hibernating

Sarah: let’s discuss outer covering

Hong Yee: i have fats n fur

Yi Yin: I have prickly stuff

Hong Yee: Bo Hui?

Bohui: I have ‘fur’ on my organism too

Sarah: Its cold, why pricky stuff?

Hong Yee: cus prickly stuff so lose less heat

Yi Yin: thats why i asked u all to look at my organism for me. Then you all never answer

hibernating in summer???

Bohui: I think should be hibernating in the winter. then in the summer the consumers can 

gather all the food they need and store it lor. Plus the summer is super short only 1-2 months 

only.

Sarah: I will be wool lor.

Ji Won: Then I will have the heating liquid

Yi YIn: So i wat?

Hong Yee: Yiyin ucan remain the prickly stuff

Bohui: Yea

What can a decomposer be?

Bohui: Decomposer needs to decompose the producers, so it can like grow on the producers lor

Yi YIn: So my organism is okay rite?

Bohui: Your organism is ok

Sarah: We need to discuss the habitat now, like tree? ground?

Hong Yee: should be ground, cus the plants everything lives on ground

Yi YIn: there are no trees there

Ji Won: Yi Yin can be floating on water.

Sarah: So like mangrove?

Yi Yin: that’s only in summer becuz the water will be frozen wat

Ji Won: In the winter also because you will be stuck in between the ice.

Yi Yin: then my roots is in the water?

Hong Yee: If im not wrong in winter there is a bit of water in the ground, so the plants roots should be       very shallow

Sarah: like a bug skate.

Ji Won: @Sarah, who?

Yi Yin: i am a plant, how to skate???? :O

Yi Yin: @ Hong Yee So my roots short one lah?

Hong Yee: yup, have to be

Yi Yin: ok, so roots in the water?

Conghui: so my organism would need something to decompose you’ll when you’ll are dead 

 right? oh and my decomposer can only survive in high temperature, it that ok? what i mean
is that it must be in cold temperature to survive

Hong Yee: no tats not true cong hui. Cus its tundra biome, so very cold, so your organism 

must have some kind of adaptation to keep warm

Hong Yee: @ Cong hui, u can decompose anything, as long its dead

Yi Yin: Can meh? I thought miss tok say must be able to happen one. U ask miss tok lah

Hong Yee: yeah

Ji Won: Sarah, what can you say about that? Must it be realistic?

Sarah: I can see not everyone in this grp is participating in this discussion

Ji Won: Everyone, please put in your opinions:D

Ji Won: I shall summarise it.

Yi Yin: yah so?

Sarah: we need to give the organisms a name. Leggo!

Hong Yee: my organism wat name ah? I think ms tok say nid in latin

Yi Yin: The name can give later wat....

Sarah: Just think the name just 'copy' from other organisms

Hong Yee: no dun copy. just google translate

Ji Won: For Yi Yin, she is a plant and then she is

Yi Yin: Ji Won, u always dun finish ur sentence :(

Conghui: its so damn hard to find decomposers kayyyyy

Sarah: @conghui, mushroom? Fungi?!!!!!!!!!

Conghui: u go search la.... so little info

Hong Yee: Conghui so when u can finish?

Yi Yin: Ji Won, i need help

Hong Yee: hey guys i think we should concentrate on 1 thing first u noe, cus its VERY messy 

now

Yi Yin: Organisms

Hong Yee: lets say the most basic one. Habitat?

Ji Won: Habitat, is dependent on the climate of the Tundra Biome

Yi Yin: Talk about habitat, then got habitat already then can say about the organisms. We 

didn’t do that at first. SO WE MIGHT HAVE TO REDO!

Hong Yee: but its just one part of the tundra biome

Ji Won: it’s okay, then we can like make the habitat to be land & water both:D

Ji Won: like bohui is water plant right? or yiyin.. hey yi yin or hongyee! Do you remember 

what we have discussed last time?

Bohui: mine is not water plant.

In a nutshell... 

My group consists of 6 members, Park Ji Won, Guo Bohui, Lee Hong Yee, Liu Conghui , Chow Yi Yin and myself. As we did not have time to meet up for a discussion, we constantly did discussions online.

 

First, we considered the factors of the Tundra Biome in Planet Zork. Thereafter, we did our force fitting using an object and posted it on a Google document that one of our group members created. Then, we all commented on each other’s force fitting and we amended it. We also discussed on how we could improve and accommodate our special features such that our food chain could flow. We also considered the features of each other’s organism and see what the possibilities were for our features.

 

Furthermore, we continued to see what features were suitable to protect itself from the surrounding temperature and climate. Then, we continued with our second and third drafts. We commented and finally arrived at our final product, our organisms.