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Staying Alive 2!

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Staying Alive-

 Topic(s):

Grey wolf, habitat, endangerment

Images/Video Resources

 

  

Scenario

Since the wolf has few natural enemies, the reason for its endangerment status is due to human related problems. Man has encroached upon its territory until the wolf has retreated to only the most wild areas on our continent. The loss of habitat has directly affected the numbers of wolves seen in the lower 48 states of America. The wolf is the only animal that has ever been hunted year-round in every national park in the United States.

 

The wolf has been hunted to near extinction by ranchers and land owners. This fear is sometimes due to myths about the nature of the wolf to attack man. Due to the wolf's competition with hunters for wild game animals, they have been known to kill farm stock when no other alternatives were available for food sources. Wolves will usually take the old and injured animals from a herd and thus improve the overall health of those animals that are left. Healthy wolves in the wild are shy creatures that avoid areas that man inhabits.

Task

Sample Investigations/Teacher Resources

The Gladys Porter Zoo has been asked to prepare for the arrival of the Grey Wolf. Gladys Porter Zoo houses about 400 animal species, including 47 endangered species and over 250 tropical and neo-tropical species and subspecies. It is situated on 31 acres.

 

In 1978 the zoo launched its summer study programs on a trial basis, with classes for children in grades 1 through 12. Although only four classes were taught that summer, the program has expanded over the years and now includes classes in the spring and fall as well as summer.

 

As an employee of the Gladys Porter Zoo, you and your summer study program team will need to prepare a suitable environment of living and nonliving things that would sustain the endangered Grey Wolf.

 

Questions to keep in mind to create his environment?

What is the Grey Wolf's habitat?

Who are his predators?

What does the wolf prey on?

 

Create a ten slide power point on the Grey Wolf's environment and upload to slide share.

To do:

  1. Review the video above. Go to SlideRocket and create a free account.

  2. Within the SlideRocket environment, you will create a brief, 6 slide presentation. The topic can be on anything that you wish. The presentation will need a beginning and an ending slide (included in the 6.)

  3. Go to Incompetech and find some downloadable music. Save to SlideRocket library.

  4. Go to YouTube and find a video that supports the content of your presentation. Save to the SlideRocket library.

  5. Go to Flickr and find pictures that support the content of your presentation. Save to the SlideRocket library.

  6. Insert the music, pictures, and video into your presentation.

  7. Add other elements such as shapes, colors, text, timings, etc.

Add your sample investigations and descriptions here

 

 

 

Student Resources

Rubric

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Resources

http://earthjustice.org/our_work/campaigns/wolves-in-danger

http://www.greateryellowstone.org/issues/wildlife/Feature.php?id=38

http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/wolves.htm

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/wolves.php

http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/mammals/wolf/

http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/17012.aspx

Create 6 slide presentation in SlideRocket

 
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Populate media library with pictures, music, and video

 
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Insert media elements into presentation

 
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Add shapes, colors, timings, and transitions

 
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Publish for viewing / embed code in table 

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Student Work

Standards

1. Read and analyze the scenario and situation.
Check your understanding of the scenario. Don't be tempted to start thinking about potential solutions or to start looking for information. 

 

1. List your personal understanding, ideas or hunches.

Now that you are familiar with wolves you will write everything you know about wolves. Describe your thoughts or ideas about how to solve the problem. There are not incorrect answers in this step, just feel free to brainstorm your ideas.

 

2. List what is known.

 With your team use all the information available in the scenario to list everything that you know about wolves. You do not have to conduct any research yet. Just use the information given and write the facts that you already know about wolves.

3. List what is unknown.

With your team, make a list about what you do not know and would like to learn. List all the questions you will need to answer to solve the problem.  

 

4. List what needs to be done.
"What should we do?" List actions to be taken, e.g., question an expert, conduct research, go to a board meeting about topic. List possible actions. 

 

5. Develop a problem statement.

You will be responsible for thinking and choosing one of the questions to solve the problem.  A problem statement should come from your analysis of what you know. In one or two sentences, you should be able to describe what it is that your group is trying to solve, produce, respond to, or find out. The problem statement may have to be revised as new information is discovered and brought to bear on the situation.

6. Gather information

Use all the resources available (Internet, library, etc) to research about the problem/topic and find a solution.


7. Present Findings

****Determine how students will present findings****

 

Science

1.9.A sort and classify living and nonliving things based upon whether or not they have basic needs and produce offspring

1.9.B analyze and record examples of interdependence found in various situations such as terrariums and aquariums or pet and caregiver

2.9.C compare and give examples of the ways living organisms depend on each other and on their environments such as food chains within a garden, park, beach, lake, and wooded area

K.2.A ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world

K.9.A differentiate between living and nonliving things based upon whether they have basic needs and produce offspring

K.9.B examine evidence that living organisms have basic needs such as food, water, and shelter for animals and air, water, nutrients, sunlight, and space for plants

 

 

 

Add copyright and resource attributions here

Staying Alive! by Christine Claudio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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