Assignment Overview

Student Learning Outcome: Describe the core concepts and methods in the sciences, including animal physiology and anatomy

The last few weeks we’ve been really getting to know the many different ways animals have adapted to live in nearly all environments on our planet. This project is asking you to become an expert in one of the phyla of animals we’ve covered.

1. You will be assigned an animal phylum and will choose a species from that phylum that you’d like to research.

The animal will be doing is: Echinodermata

2. Your research should focus on the following questions:

• How is the animal classified (phylum, class, order, family, genus and species)?
• In what kind of environment is the animal found? What is its niche?
• Anatomy and Physiology of the species
  • How does the animal obtain and process food?
  • How does the animal exchange gases with its environment and circulate nutrients throughout its body?
  • How does the animal regulate its internal environment (body temperature, water balance, waste filtration and elimination)
  • How does the animal sense and respond to external stimuli?
  • How does the organism reproduce?
  • Describe the organism’s life cycle.

3. Your next step will be to create an informative website using Google sites. Your site should highlight your animal and provide details about the questions above. Be sure to provide citations for all of the information, images, video clips, and/or music you may use.

HERE IS RUBRIC FOR THE PROJECT:

View the animal diversity unit project rubric in this google doc (Links to an external site.). To save a copy of the rubric, go to file – make a copy. Or, download the rubric by going to file – download.