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Endangered Animals

(Grades 4 - 5)

Activity List

The following is a list of activities designed to provide teachers with a comprehensive, standards-aligned, literacy and technology-embedded project for this unit. Feel free to add your own elements or modify the unit to work best for you and your students.

Intended Learning:

Students will learn about endangered and threatened animals through various activities that stimulate the students’ creative side. Using technology, students will investigate and come up with reasons why certain animals are becoming endangered.

Unit Activities:

  1. KWLW
  2. Research and Note-Taking
  3. Endangered Species Act –Scavenger Hunt
  4. Endangered Animals Fact Sheet
  5. Website Search
  6. Information Brochure
  7. Article Debate
  8. Causes and Effects
  9. What Can You Do to Help?
  10. Pod Cast
  11. Additional Activity Ideas

All the lessons in this unit are designed to provide you with content and strategies to implement the activities. Please feel free to use your professional discretion as to sequence and content.