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Name _____________________________________
Date ______________________________________
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ASSESSMENT MENU FOR LAND BIOMES
Choose from the selection of menu items below so that you are doing 100
points worth of work. Please refer to your menu pages in your notebook to
completely understand the requirements for each item listed below.
Checkmark the blank to the left of the items you are choosing to complete.
*Remember to explain where your biome is located. For example if you
choose to create an acrostic poem for the desert biome, your food web
would depend on if you were researching the Gobi Desert (cold) versus the
Sahara Desert (hot). *
Extra credit is possible after you have earned the initial 100 points.
10 POINT MENU ITEMS
______ Create an acrostic poem from your biome. It should include information
about that biomes food web.
______ Create a collage of pictures and words that represent your biome.
Include a sentence for each item that explains how it is related to your
ecosystem.
______ Create a set of trading cards for your biome that includes examples of
the plants and animals found in your biome.
______ Design a diorama for your biome that includes more than one food chain.
______ Create Three Facts and a Fib about your biome with one picture that
represents your biome.
______ Write a song/ rap about your biome. Include information about the
climate (temperature / precipitation), plants and animals.
______ Make a crossword puzzle (computer generated or on graph paper) about
your ecosystem.
______ Make a mobile that represents plant, animal life in your biome. Use
pictures and words describing them on each mobile piece.
10 POINT MENU ITEMS (CONT’D)
______ Create a cube about the adaptations your plants and animals have
made to live in your biome.
______ Make concentration cards teaching someone about your biome’s
characteristics (plants, animals, precipitation, temperature).
25 POINT MENU ITEMS
______ Design a foldable using words, phrases and pictures that explains the
climate (temperature and precipitation), plant and animal life in your biome.
______ Create trading cards with pictures of various plants and animals from all
over the world. The facts on the card should describe that plant or animal’s native
biome (climate, location and food chain).
50 POINT MENU ITEMS
______ Make a travel brochure that would encourage people to visit three
biomes. Your brochure should include not only general information about
those biomes but what is special about them so it worth the trip. Let the
traveler know what to pack and what there is to do in all three of the
biomes.
______ Make a biome board game in which players move through a biome
encountering both biotic and abiotic factors and examples of symbiosis
and predator/ prey relationships within that biome.
_______ TOTAL POINTS