Year 7 Homework Project
Week beginning Monday 23rd June
Deadline Friday 4th July
Project overview
• The homework project is titled ‘discover a new
animal’.
• Students begin by choosing a real-world
habitat and analysing the feeding relationships
within it. They then design their own animal,
picking and explaining the adaptations that
would help it to survive in their chosen habitat
and food chain/food web.
Task 1
• Pick one habitat from the list (or you can pick one that is not on this
list)
• Desert
• Rainforest
• English woodland
• Mountain
• Ocean
• River
• Arctic
• Antarctic
• Using any medium (poster/Word/PowerPoint etc.) explain what
animals are in your habitat and how they are interlinked.
• Pick one animal and say how it is adapted to its habitat.
Task 2
• Design your own animal. Describe the
adaptations it has.
• Make a model of your animal or draw it in
detail.
Extension
• Describe what habitat your animal would be
suited to.
• Draw/Make the habitat and describe the
conditions.
Marking Criteria
Marking Point
1
2
3
4
5
You can explain what animals are found in your
chosen habitat and why
You can explain what the conditions in your
chosen habitat are like –e.g. temperature, light
levels
You can draw a food chain to show what eats
what in your habitat
You can describe some of the adaptations of a
real animal in your chosen habitat that helps it to
survive.
You can make a model of an imaginary animal
and describe the adaptations that its has that
allows it to survive and include a food chain to
show what it eats, and what eats it.
Total marks
/25