Animal Adaptation Tournament

Objective

Students will work through a tournament to determine the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest animal adaptations.

Here are my notes about the adaptations:

1. Cuttlefish - three skin layers that created different colors and patterns. Their skin also has papillae to add texture.
2. Dorcas Gazelle - many water conserving adaptations (they don't have to drink, they have solid urine, etc)
3. Sunda Flying Lemur - skin membrane for gliding
4. Wood frogs - can freeze their blood
5. Pufferfish - grow when threatened
6. Mimic octopus - mimics dangerous animals
7. Camel - third eyelid!
8. ant-mimicking treehopper (Cyphonia clavata) — adapted to grow a… realistic ant-shaped protrusion on its back!

Resources

• Tournament Thinking (PDF)
• Tournament Thinking (Google Slides)
• Tournament Bracket (PDF)
• Tournament Bracket (Google Slides)