Invert Research Project
Explain how the animal does four of following activities:
a. Movement (muscles, water vascular?)
b. Feeding (True gut?, mechanism of digestion)
c. Breathing (Lungs, gills, diffusion?)
d. Reproduction (Sexual, Asexual?)
e. Response (brain, nerve net?)
f. Internal Transport (open or closed circulatory system?)
Diagram of major anatomy (label relevant components).
Background Information (human uses, population status, distribution, etc)
Your animal is placed into which phylum? Explain the key characteristics of the phylum.
Grading rubric:
Characteristics /8
Diagram /4
Background /4
Presentation/Listening /12
TOTAL /28 (each time off task, - 14 points)
(no sources for information, -28 points)
Format:
Presentation – Presention should be about 3 or 4 minutes long, with minimal notes and prepared, clean diagrams/posters/Power Points.
Paper – If you don’t like presentations, you can answer all questions in paper form. The paper should be about 1.5-2 pages long (in the past, papers of this length have done an excellent job of answering the questions above.
Poster - A typed, illustrated poster has been used in the past in conjunction with a 1-2 minute presentation.
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