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Crayfish Habitat Menu

Directions: For the past three weeks, you have been working as scientists to
learn about Crayfish including what they need to live and the habitat in which
they live in. You will use your observations and research to create a Crayfish
Habitat Menu. This menu will be broken down into three parts: the appetizer,
main course, and dessert.

For the appetizer, you will use the observations and research you conducted
during your exploration of the crayfish to write down five facts about crayfish.
You will then use those facts to write a paragraph (5-7 sentences) from the
perspective of a crayfish. This paragraph must include what the crayfish eats,
what it needs to live, and what it looks like. You may include any other
information about the crayfish in your paragraph as long as you have what it
eats, what it needs to live, and what it looks like.

For the main course, you will draw and label the parts of a crayfish. Your labeling
must include the abdomen, cephalothorax, long and short antennae, the
carapace, the compound eye, four pairs of walking legs, cheliped (claw), telson,
and swimmerets. You may color your labeled drawing, but are not required to.
You will then create a model of your crayfishs habitat that identifies if the
crayfish lives on land, in water, or both, and at least two essential items you
would find in a crayfishs habitat for it to live. You are encouraged to be creative.
You may use colored pencils, crayons, paint, tissue paper, markers, googly eyes,
pompoms, feathers, etc. to create a model of your crayfishs habitat.

For the dessert, you are required to choose one of the following options. You
may complete one or more of the additional options, but only the first one will
be graded.
Option 1: Write a song, rap, or poem (with at least two stanzas) that
identifies at least three features of your crayfishs habitat.
Option 2: Create a comic strip using your crayfishs habitat as the setting.
The comic strip must be at least six squares long.
Option 3: Create a crossword puzzle with at least ten vocabulary words
from our crayfish unit. Three of those words must be related to the
crayfishs habitat.
Option 4: Pretend you are your crayfish for a day. Write an adventure story
(at least two paragraphs, 5-7 sentences per paragraph) about your
adventures as a crayfish. Be sure to include what your habitat looks like
and what you like and dislike about it.

Note: All students will be presented with a blank menu (made out of construction paper), but
you are allowed to create your own as long as it includes the appetizer, main course, and
dessert in that order.

You will have one week to complete this assignment. Class time will be provided.
 Analytic Rubric for Crayfish Habitat Menu

4 3 2 1
Appetizer Student lists five Student lists Student lists two Student lists
facts from their four facts from to three facts either one fact
observations their from their or zero facts
and research on observations observations from their
crayfish. Their and research on and research on observations
paragraph is 5-7 crayfish. Their crayfish. Their and research on
sentences, is paragraph is 4 paragraph is 2-3 crayfish. Their
written from the sentences, is sentences, is paragraph is
perspective of a written from the not written from less than two
crayfish, and perspective of a the perspective sentences, is not
includes what crayfish, and of a crayfish, written from the
the crayfish includes two of and includes perspective of a
eats, what it the three one of the crayfish, and
needs to live, elements: what following: what includes none of
and what it the crayfish the crayfish the following:
looks like. eats, what it eats, what it what the
needs to live, needs to live, crayfish eats,
and what it and what it what it needs to
looks like. looks like. live, and what it
looks like.
Main Course Student draws Student draws Student draws Student draws
and labels the and labels the and labels the and labels the
parts of the parts of the parts of the parts of the
crayfish. The crayfish. 7-9 of crayfish. 4-6 of crayfish. 0-3 of
abdomen, the following: the following: the following:
cephalothorax, the abdomen, the abdomen, the abdomen,
long and short cephalothorax, cephalothorax, cephalothorax,
antennae, the long and short long and short long and short
carapace, the antennae, the antennae, the antennae, the
compound eye, carapace, the carapace, the carapace, the
four pairs of compound eye, compound eye, compound eye,
walking legs, four pairs of four pairs of four pairs of
cheliped (claw), walking legs, walking legs, walking legs,
telson, and cheliped (claw), cheliped (claw), cheliped (claw),
swimmerets are telson, and telson, and telson, and
correctly swimmerets are swimmerets are swimmerets are
labeled. Student correctly correctly correctly
creates a model labeled. Student labeled. Student labeled. Student
of a crayfishs creates a model creates a model creates a model
habitat that of a crayfishs of a crayfishs of a crayfishs
 identifies if the habitat that habitat that habitat that
crayfish lives on identifies if the identifies if the does not identify
land, in water, crayfish lives on crayfish lives on if the crayfish
or both, and land, in water, land, in water, lives on land, in
includes at least or both, and or both, but water, or both,
two essential includes at least does not include and does not
items in a one essential essential items include essential
crayfishs item in a in a crayfishs items in a
habitat that it crayfishs habitat that it crayfishs
needs to live. habitat that it needs to live. habitat that it
needs to live. needs to live.
Dessert Student Student Student Student
completes at completes at completes at completes at
least one of the least one of the least one of the least one of the
options options options options
provided. provided. provided. provided.
Option 1: Option 1: Option 1: Option 1:
Student creates Student creates Student creates Student creates
a song, rap, or a song, rap, or a song, rap, or a song, rap, or
poem that is at poem that is poem that is poem that is
least two one to two one stanza and less than one
stanzas and stanzas and identifies one complete stanza
identifies at identifies one to feature of a and identifies
least three two features of crayfishs zero features of
features of a a crayfishs habitat. a crayfishs
crayfishs habitat. Option 2: habitat.
habitat. Option 2: Student creates Option 2:
Option 2: Student creates a comic strip Student creates
Student creates a comic strip that is two to a comic strip
a comic strip that is four to three squares that is one
that is at least five squares long and does square long and
six squares long long and uses not use the does not use the
and uses the the crayfishs crayfishs crayfishs
crayfishs habitat as the habitat as the habitat as the
habitat as the setting for the setting in every setting
setting for the comic. square of the anywhere in the
comic. Option 3: comic comic
Option 3: Student creates Option 3: Option 3:
Student creates a crossword Student creates Student creates
a crossword puzzle that a crossword a crossword
puzzle that includes 7-9 puzzle that puzzle that
includes at least vocabulary includes 4-6 includes 0-3
ten vocabulary words from the vocabulary vocabulary
words from the crayfish unit. At words from the words from the
crayfish unit. At least three of crayfish unit. crayfish unit.
least three of the words are One or two of None of the
the words are related to the the words are words are
related to the crayfishs related to the related to the
crayfishs habitat. crayfishs crayfishs
habitat. Option 4: habitat. habitat.
Option 4: Student writes Option 4: Option 4:
Student writes an adventure Student writes Student writes
an adventure story at least an adventure an adventure
story at least one paragraph story that is story that is less
two paragraphs long (5-7 three to five than three
 in length (5-7 sentences per sentences long sentences long,
sentences for paragraph) from from the is not from the
each paragraph) the perspective perspective of a perspective of a
from the of a crayfish crayfish that crayfish and
perspective of a that includes includes one of does not include
crayfish that two of the three the three any of the three
includes what elements: what elements: what elements: what
your habitat your habitat your habitat your habitat
looks like and looks like and looks like and looks like and
what you like what you like what you like what you like
and dislike and dislike and dislike and dislike
about it. about it. about it. about it.
Presentation The menu is well The menu is The menu is The menu is not
organized and organized and somewhat organized and
neat. There are neat. There are organized and neat. There are
no spelling or a few spelling or neat. There are multiple spelling
multiple spelling
punctuation punctuation or punctuation
or punctuation
errors found in errors found in errors found in the errors found in
the menu. All the menu. All menu that take the menu that
three parts are three parts are away from the make the menu
included in the included in the overall unable to read.
correct order: correct order: presentation and One of the three
appetizer, main appetizer, main make it difficult to parts is included
course, dessert course, dessert. read. Two of the in the correct
and it is easy to The reader is three parts are order: appetizer,
included in the
identify where able to identify main course,
correct order:
each part is. where each part appetizer, main dessert. The
is. course, dessert. reader cannot
The reader has tell where one
trouble identifying part begins and
where each part ends.
is.