In turn, each group member names an adaptation that would help them survive if they encountered this animal. Within each group, students discuss the survival adaptations each of them named. Ask the group moderator to point out how or if she or he could overcome each adaptation. Each group chooses one adaptation that would help them the most. Each moderator describes the chosen adaptation to the rest of the class.
Human activities can accelerate environmental changes.
By changing the environment, we can completely destroy a habitat for which an animal is adapted. If the animal lacks the adaptations necessary to live there, it could become extinct. In the same groups, or as a class, create adaptations that may help protect these animals from extinction.ters or popular myth and movie sea monsters. Materials cards or slips of paper with the names of dangerous sea animals written on them. Find suggestions at Dangerous Denizens .