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Science & Technology Animal Report

Due: Thursday, March 31, 2005

• Select and research an animal (animal pre-approved by Miss Young)
• Research the animal, taking notes on the provided outline
• Make a HyperStudio stack about the animal
• Use at least 1 online source and 1 printed book source
• Attach your typed, formatted works cited to the outline when you hand it in (click here for details about the Works Cited)

• Use Inspiration to complete the information for Slides 5 & 6. Copy and paste your information into HyperStudio cards.

In this report, students are using the Internet to research information about an assigned animal, then presenting that information in a HyperStudio presentation. In addition to the use of Internet Explorer and HyperStudio, students are also using Inspiration to brainstorm a food web and animal adaptations as well as use AppleWorks to write a Works Cited. The Animal Report is due on Thursday, March 31, 2005. Students who require additional time to complete their report outside of computer lab and science should go to the computer center during recess (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays) and lunch (every day).

You may download an additional copy of the assignment packet or specific elements here:

• Entire Packet - 7 pages [ Word ] [ PDF ]
  
• Animal Proposal - 1 page [ Word ] [ PDF ]
• Card Descriptions - 3 pages [ Word ] [ PDF ]
• Citing Your Sources (How to cite sources) - 1 page [ Word ] [ PDF ]
• Works Cited Sources (Fill-in page) - 1 page [ Word ] [ PDF ]
• Grade Sheet - 1 page [ Word ] [ PDF ]
  
  Map Outlines for Card 3:
  
• World Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ] [ GIF ]
• Africa Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• Americas Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• Antarctica Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• Arctic Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ] [ GIF ]
• Asia Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• Australia Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• Europe Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• Eurasia Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• North America Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• Oceania Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
• South America Map Outline - 1 image [ PICT ] [ JPG ]
  
• If there is a particular continent that your animal can *only* be found on, and it isn't listed above to be used as the background for slide
• PICT files are Macintosh-only files (they should work in the computer lab)

Works Cited Guidelines:

• Center the page title "Works Cited"
• One empty line under "Works Cited"
• Use hanging indents (by .5") for each source entry
• Create a "1 line after paragraph" spacing - do this instead of hitting return inbetween entries
• Use the "Citing Your Sources" page provided in your packet to format entries for order, underline, quotations, and punctuation
• Alphabetize your list of resources by the 1st letter of the entries (excluding articles "the", "an", "a")
• Print your completed, formatted Works Cited and staple to the back of your packet

Suggested Milestone Dates:

Other Important Dates:

Week of 3/14 (Works Cited): Finish research, Have all notes for works cited. We'll be going to the computer lab during computer time to learn how to properly format your Works Cited (a skill that you'll need all the way through college!). If you have all your notes, you can walk out of the lab with your completed, formatted, and printed Works Cited.

Resources:

• Google (Great web search engine, allows searching for images, be sure to turn on Strict Filtering in preferences): http://www.google.com
• National Geographic, Animals & Nature (Great photographs, Use the search feature to find your animal, Follow links for great pages with more information): http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/

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