Congratulations! Your fantastic creature is now real! You can touch it, you can see it. But this challenge has not finished yet. This newborn animal needs to have a name, maybe even a family. And it’s time to use words to explain to the world what your fantastic animal is like.
Let's assume that you are omnipotent. You've just created life. So what do you want to call this living thing you've just brought into being? Naming things can be extremely hard, can it not? Parents have enough problems deciding what to call their newborn, and scientists have just as much trouble thinking up some appropriate Latin name for the new species of insect they've only just found before someone else does.
Choose the best name ever for these real creatures. then compare your election with their real names?. Have you made your decision in the same way?
Did you enjoy the activity above? Now, it’s time to think about a name for your perfect animal.
Have you thought about being part of a family? No real or imaginary living being can live in isolation. They depend on each other to survive. Maybe you can imagine the name of a complete class or kingdom for it.
Have you considered if your perfect animal is a unique being or, on the contrary, it belongs to a specific species? How would your fantastic creature survive in isolation?
Every species known to science has a name. Putting a name on a new species is exciting and important because you are naming a unique creature. Here's a step-by-step guide to naming this creature.
There are some rules you must follow:
The name must be unique. Your species name cannot have been used for any other animal.
The name can't be rude.
You can't name the species after yourself. Nobody — and I mean nobody — names a species after themselves. It's tacky!
Great species names tell you something about the creature itself, so get creative. You can draw on any feature of the species, such as its appearance, behaviour, habitat or geographic location.
The name can be written in any language.
Scientific names are written in Latin. However, you don't have to worry about this and you can choose the name you want in the language you want.
Naming a species is both an incredible honour and an enormous responsibility.
Excerpt from:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-08-05/how-to-scientifically-name-species/7681634
There are more fun animals that you can describe. What names would you choose for them? Discuss it with your partner.
Now, choose a name for your animal and tell your classmates.
Up to now, you have imagined the physical characteristics of your perfect animal, you have also assigned human qualities to it and you have considered its family or species.
However, have you thought about what your perfect animal needs to survive? What kind of ecosystem will keep your perfect animal alive?
Doing research may not be easy. You need to focus on what you want to find and where you can find it.
Here you have some links to help you with the where.
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Do research and find four terrestrial and two aquatic ecosystems. Complete this fact file. Write one for each ecosystem.
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