Explore

Let's Explore...with Stations!

In this phase, you will read articles and view videos about endangered animals each at a different station. Keep in mind these questions to answer while completing the blue section in your zoologist journal.

What is an extinct animal?
How does an animal become extinct?
What are examples of animals and their habitats?
Why is it important to protect endangered species?

How-to Hint

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Use the keywords above each link if the lin can't access the material directly.

Interact!

Click your way through this website to understand how animals become endangered

Keywords: Endangered and Threatened Species

Watch!

Learn how the Smithsonian National Zoo is keeping threatened animals safe.

Keywords: Endangered Species

Read!

Read about endangered species today and how people are protecting them.

Keywords: Endangered species

See!

These images capture these threatened animals for an instant.

Keywords: Endangered species gallary

You have watched a video, viewed animal pictures, and read about endangered animals. Isn't it amazing the different resources available to find out all about the many different animals in our world?!

Next, you will get to identify, or decide, what animal you will research for your presentation.

IDENTIFY

For Teachers...

In this stage, students will "...browse through various sources of information to explore interesting ideas and prepare to develop their inquiry questions." (Kuthlthau et al, 2012, p. 75). The learning goal for the students is to explore new ideas which will raise questions to help them identify their focus and gather information from resources in the next two stages.

Students will be expected to fill out as best as they can the answers in their zoologist notebook to the four questions posed to them. The questions are help the students go deep in their thinking of endangered animals.

Reference

Endangered species [Video file]. (2016). Retrieved April 24, 2020, from https://learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=193416&xtid=150777

Endangered species. (2020). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from https://school.eb.com/levels/elementary/article/endangered-species/353099

Endangered and Threatened Animals. (2020). In PebbleGo. Retrieved from https://site.pebblego.com/modules/2/categories/2985/articles/2145

Fun frog (clip art). (no date). Retrieve from https://schools.iclipart.com/

"A Gallery of Animal Species". (2020). In ScienceFlix. Retrieved from https://sdm-sfx.digital.scholastic.com/tr_mediapopup/01002261_10771790/1/3&searchText=endangered%20animals&docKey=c2Z4d3cvc2Z4d3d1cy8xMDAyMjk5Ny5odG1s?authCtx=U.636189721

Kuhlthau, C. C., Maniotes, L. K., & Caspari, A. K. (2012). Guided inquiry design: a framework for inquiry in your school. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

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