The threat to rainforest from human hands is posing new challenges for species to battle with. Cool Earth a Cornish charity helping protect the rainforest is running a competition for students do design their own organism. (Visit http://www.coolearth.org/)
The competition is open to all primary school children across the UK and secondary students aged 12 and under. They want your students to design and name a new species of plant or animal that has imaginative ways of dealing with the ever increasing challenges of living in the rainforest. The winning entry will have their design illustrated by Rob Steen and will receive a copy of Flanimals signed by Ricky Gervais. The school will also receive one acre of rainforest protected in their name and Cool Earth would like to visit winning school to present the prize. Two runners up will be presented with a signed copy of Flanimals and their school will receive one acre of rainforest protected in their name.
To make things even easier for you I have produced on behalf of Cool Earth a resource booklet that contains all the curriculum links, lesson objectives, outcomes, success criteria and a link to a video as a starter to your lesson as well as some suggested activities to carry out as part of the lesson. The lesson resource pdf is titled Can you create your own organism and can be downloaded from: http://drop.io/coolearth
How to enter?
The design must be a picture of the animal, annotated with the ideas of how the species has been designed to survive. Entries will be judged on creativity and understanding of the conditions that species in the rainforest must face. Email the pictures if you are able to scan or photograph any to schools@coolearth.org making sure you mention in the subject The Chicken man Or post them to us: Cool Earth, E16, Opie Building, Cornwall College Camborne, Trevenson Road, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3RD. Make sure the student’s name, age and school are on the entries and that you include the schools contact details. The closing date is the 20th November 2009. For terms & conditions please see http://www.coolearth.org/ or for more information and other resources for schools and teachers see http://www.coolearth.org/365/category/teachers-168.html