Adapted Animal Inventions

Children choose an Australian habitat such as desert, reef, alpine or rainforest, then invent and draw a new animal with features that would help it survive there.

How to run it

1. Look at a few real Australian animals and their adaptations, such as a thorny devil's water-channelling skin or a wombat's backward-facing pouch.
2. Have each child pick a habitat card and list its challenges, like heat, cold, predators or little water.
3. Ask them to invent and draw an animal, labelling each feature and how it helps.
4. Have them name their creature and write what it eats and where it shelters.
5. Display the inventions as a gallery and invite children to explain one feature.

You will need

• habitat cards
• paper
• pencils and textas
• pictures of Australian animals

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