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In some clades, additional unpaired fins were acquired during evolution (e.g. pelvic fins in † Bobasatrania, caudal fin in ocean sunfish).

For every type of fin, there are a number of fish species in which this particular fin has been lost during evolution (e.g. The pectoral and pelvic fins are paired, whereas the dorsal, anal and caudal fins are unpaired and situated along the midline of the body. Fins can also be used for other purposes male sharks and mosquitofish use a modified fin to deliver sperm, thresher sharks use their caudal fin to stun prey, reef stonefish have spines in their dorsal fins that inject venom, anglerfish use the first spine of their dorsal fin like a fishing rod to lure prey, and triggerfish avoid predators by squeezing into coral crevices and using spines in their fins to lock themselves in place.įins can either be paired or unpaired. Most of them use fins when swimming, flying fish use pectoral fins for gliding, and frogfish use them for crawling. Their principal function is to help the fish swim.įins located in different places on the animal serve different purposes such as moving forward, turning, keeping an upright position or stopping. Apart from the tail or caudal fin, fish fins have no direct connection with the spine and are supported only by muscles.

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They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as seen in sharks. (4) adipose fin, (5) anal fin, (6) caudal (tail) finįins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of Actinopterygii, Dipnomorpha, Actinistia and Chondrichthyes fishes. (1) pectoral fins (paired), (2) pelvic fins (paired), (3) dorsal fin, I have created other work which accompanies this as part of a scheme, such as aquatic and natural form lesson/activity sheets, and other drawing based resources of varying subject matter, which you may wish to look at in my shop.Ray fins on a teleost fish, Hector's lanternfish

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Their sheets are then stored in an A3 portfolio with integrated clear wallets to record and store their project journey in a professional folder. I usually print this resource on A3 cartridge paper and my students work directly onto the sheet. It takes approximately two lessons to complete, if being produced to a high standard. It has been designed to be used within a scheme of work, but is also suitable for a one off couple of lessons, and/or cover session(s).

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The resource is two PDF files one with a ghost outline template to support the less able/less confident students, and one without for the more able/gifted and talented students.

This sheet is also designed to engage students in ‘looking and seeing’, exploring an experimental technique, and in using the following Formal Elements of art: The main task has a puffer fish reference picture, with a separate space to draw their own image. This is repeated in a different manner in an extension task where students create a ‘POINTILLISM’ title tone bar to reinforce their shading skills used. There is a pointillism tone bar starter task for students to practise the technique using varied tonal shading first, before beginning the main task. On the sheet there is the learning objective, a description of what the pointillism technique is, and the task instructions. It can be used for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 students.

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This resource is designed to teach students how to use the pointillism technique to aid their experimental drawing skills, focusing on the Formal Elements TONE, FORM, TEXTURE, SHAPE and PATTERN, by producing a puffer fish drawing.

Puffer fish drawings