Biome Projects
You are going on a biology mission trip to different biomes from around the world!
Your mission will be to discover some new and interesting things about different
biomes from all over the world. Mrs. Bickel would love to hear all about your
discoveries. Therefore, you will prepare a class presentation to share the wealth of
information you gathered about your unique biome. Be creative, have fun, and
discover something you never knew about our world before!
Guidelines:
1. Your presentation needs to be creative.
a. Have fun! You can create a movie, a newscast, a song, a slideshow
2. It needs to be between 3-6 minutes in length.
3. You must dress professionally the day you give your presentation.
4. You must give a clear and rehearsed presentation.
5. You must include the following information:
a. Research 5 different animals from your Biome and include pictures.
i. Find interesting facts on your animal; what they eat, are they a
producer, consumer, what adaptations allow for survival in
that biome, etc….
b. Research 2 different plants from your biome and include pictures.
i. Find interesting facts on your plants; why are they in your
biome, adaptations, what feeds on them, etc….
c. Picture of your Biome Location on a world map
i. Include what country it is found in or what continent.
d. Give the yearly averages of precipitation and temperature for your
biome.
i. Make note of different seasons found in your biome. Detail!
e. Scenic Pictures of your biome. (Like you took them while on this trip)
f. Create a food web for the producers and consumers of your specific
Biome. If an animal does not live in your biome, then you cannot put
it on your web. You may put more animals in your web than you
researched. You create this; you do not find one online and use it as
your own!
g. Give one complete scientific classification of one of your organisms.
h. F and G need to be typed and printed out. These will be turned in
the day the project it due. I will be attaching your graded rubric to
these and returning it to you with your final grade.
Biome Choices:
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Temperate forest of North America
Temperate Grassland of North America
Desert of North America
Tropical Dry Forest of Mexico
Tropical Rainforest of South America
Boreal Forest or Taiga of North America
Tundra of North America
Temperate Woodland or Shrub land of North America
Northwest Coniferous Forest of North America
Temperate Woodland or Shrub land of South America
Temperate Grassland of South America
Tropical Grassland of South America
Tropical Dry Forest of South America
Desert of South America
Temperate Forest of South America
Temperate Forest of Europe
Temperate Woodland or Shrub land of Europe
Boreal Forest of Europe
Temperate Grasslands of Europe
Desert of Africa
Temperate Woodland or Shrub land of Africa
Savanna or Tropical Grassland of Africa
Tropical Rainforest of Africa
Tropical Rainforest of Madagascar
Dry Forest of Madagascar
Desert of Madagascar
Tropical Dry Forest of India
Desert of Asia
Temperate Grassland of Asia
Temperate Forest of Asia
Tropical Grasslands of China
Temperate Grasslands of Asia
Tropical Rainforest of India
Tropical Rainforest of the Pacific Islands
Desert of India
Boreal Forest of Russia
Tundra of Russia
Tundra of Antarctica
Deserts of Australia
Temperate Woodland or Shrub land of Australia
Temperate Grasslands of Australia and New Zealand
Tropical Grasslands of Australia and New Zealand
Temperate Forest of Australia and New Zealand
Grading Rubric:
Points
20
15
10
5
Professional Look
Wore dress pants, tie, appropriate length skirt or dress.
Khakis, sweaters, nice shirt
Jeans, and nice shirt
Sweat shirt, sweat pants, jeans and T-shirt
Points
20
Clear Presentation
You rehearsed your presentation several times and it shows.
You met the time requirement. You make eye contact with the
audience. You do not rely heavily on your notes. You speak
loud and clearly. You keep it professional.
You fail to meet one of the objectives from above consistently.
You are quiet and hard to hear.
You seem unrehearsed and rely on your notes through most of
the presentation. You fail to meet 2 of the objectives from
above consistently.
You fail to meet 3 or more of the above objectives consistently.
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10
5
Points
30
25
20
15
10
5
Points
30
25
20
15
10
5
Information
You included all parts of this assignment with attention to detail
making it your own. You did not plagiarize.
You did not include one of the required parts of this
assignment.
You did not include 2 parts of this assignment.
You did not include 3 parts of this assignment.
You did not include 4 parts of this assignment.
You did not include 5 parts of this assignment.
Creativity
Extremely creative and well done, it looks professional. You did
something new and challenging.
Creative project that is well done. (Poster)
Your project results did not reflect how you challenged yourself
to do something new and creative.
Lacked creativity and a bit unorganized.
Not neat, not in color
Sloppy mess!