This lesson affords students an opportunity to synthesize what they have learned about the anatomy of fish with their knowledge of ocean environments and organism's methods of adapting to survive. The problem can be expanded to include other sea creatures and environments. After creating the ocean descriptors, individually, then as a class, students will brainstorm in fifteen minutes of less, many, different, and unusual adaptive characteristics and behaviors.
Ideas are then to be categorized.
Students will narrow the specific characteristics of their fish's environment. Using the generated adaptive characteristics and behaviors as a resource, students will identify adaptations that will impact characteristics of their fish. They will then collect materials needed to make a model. Students will make a model and name it. Fish models will be labeled, presented and displayed in a synthesized environment.