Endangered EmergencyDriving Question: How can we keep animals on the endangered list from going extinct?
Project Summary: Students are taking on the title of zoologist/biologist to study the driving question: how can we keep animals on the endangered list from going extinct? Students will study the habitats and characteristics of endangered animals. Students will create a music video bringing awareness to various endangered animals, an informational writing piece on an endangered animal in the habitat of their choosing, create a model or artistic rendering of their animal, and create visual display that explores the different habitats they are required to know.
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Focus Standards:
S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
a. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.
b. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
c. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms. d. Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many.
S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation) and external features (camouflage and protection).
a. Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than other organisms that do not have these features. (e.g. camouflage, use of hibernation, protection, etc.)
b. Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms
S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
a. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.
b. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
c. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms. d. Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many.
S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation) and external features (camouflage and protection).
a. Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than other organisms that do not have these features. (e.g. camouflage, use of hibernation, protection, etc.)
b. Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms
Inquiry
Guest Speaker - Mrs. Marshall from the Atlanta Zoo
Skype Lesson - Animal Adaptations
Buffalo Bill Center for the Wild West, Oklahoma |
Students explore worms...
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ART CONNECTION
Music Connection - Students created a music video Public Service Announcement.