Crazy+Creatures

=== During the Summer Term of 2009 pupils from Y6 had the chance to combine their French and ICT studies by designing and then describing their own unique, hybrid creatures. Using the website for the [|New York Zoo and Aquarium], each child selected and combined a variety of different physical characteristics to effect some very peculiar animals indeed! They then used their word-processing skills to produce a description of each animal in French, altering font style, size and colour in whatever way they wished and adding bullet points, page borders and word art titles to enhance the overall design of their work. This activity gave pupils the opportunity to revise French vocabulary for small numbers, body parts and animals whilst some pupils extended their descriptions further to include clothing and colour vocabulary or even their creatures' habitat. ===

Here is the slideshare of their finished work:
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=== 'La Cité des sciences et de l'industrie' is a very popular interactive science museum situated in the heart of Paris and which draws over three million visitors from all over the world every year. Follow [|this link to its website] and you will be able to create your own imaginary creature by combining the various characteristics of several different animals. To begin choose from eight silhouettes, then select a skin type, next indicate the numbers of legs you want your creature to have, then select a footprint and finally choose what kind of babies your creature will give birth to. You can even choose to give your animal a strange cry! Before you print your creature, scroll through the background options using the purple arrows on screen to select the habitat you prefer - the more bizarre the better! ===

Here are a couple of examples of the sort of unique creature you can create!