Special Assignment

It is your mission (should you choose to accept it) to find out as much as you can about this animal and present it as a research project to the Wildlife Education Services headquarters.

 

Once a Month the best project submitted will be awarded with the prized "Wildlife Education Services wildlife achievement certificate"and other goodies!

 

This certificate and your goodies will be sent out in the mail, so be sure to enclose your address when you send in your project!

This months subject is the snakes around Perth.
You can do an assignment on just one snake or you could do the assignment on a group of snakes, 
or snakes in general around Perth.  


Check out last months winner!
Check out the ideas below for some inspiration for your assignment

 Just in case you are stuck!

Here are some Presentation Ideas!

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Hover your mouse over the arrows below the box to scroll through some or our presentation ideas for inspiration.

- Your project should present all the information you have found out about the animal

- You could combine your information with pictures as well, or make it into a scientific article and use graphs and statistics.

- If you are artistic you could make all your information into a drawing and label it and include other things around the animal; habitat etc.

- If you have seen a snake you could present your assignment as an account of your encounter or as an interview of someone else who has seen one.

- You could investigate the history of the snakes and people. What impact they had on each other. Was there any folklore or songs about snakes? Were snakes used by pioneers for anything?

- What you do is completely up to you, but try to be original and creative. Use your strengths, if you are more academic do lots of research, if you are more arty you could concentrate more on the drawing side of it.

Some more questions and ideas for inspiration

What is the subject called? What scientific family does it belong to?  Is it a Marsupial? is it a reptile? What does it eat? Where does it live? Where does it sleep? 

Does it have babies?  How many babies does it have? How old are the females when they have babies?  How long is the female pregnant for? Does the male look after the babies too?

What distinguising features does it have?  Are there any special facts about it?  How many are there?  How does it move? Have you ever seen one?   Do you know of anyone who has seen one?  Where does it live? What does it live in ?  Does it build a home itself?  What does it eat?  Is it active at day or in the night?  How long does it live?

What is the history of the animal?  is it native or introduced?  Were there historically more or less?  Was the creature hunted for any reason?  Is it still hunted?  Is it protected in any way?  Are there any famous stories about one of these creatures? 

 

Remember to ask for help if you need it and always get permission to send anything in to us
So Jump to it!

 

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