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Endangered Animals: A Thematic Unit
Website
Endangered Animals Website
This website was designed to assist students in gathering information about endangered animals. It was used as a supplement to text based research in the library.

Templates
ProjectFormat_Animal.cwk This is a project description for the use of the Inspiration and AW slidshow templates which follow.

ANIMALAPPEARANCE(blank)

ANIMALAPPEARANCE
(example)

Inspiration (v. 7) template for organizing research information about an animal's appearance.

ANIMALGROUP(blank)

ANIMALGROUP(example)

Inspiration template for organizing research information about an animal's social organization.

ANIMALFAMILYLIFE(blank)

ANIMALFAMILY(example)

Inspiration template for organizing research information about an animal's family life.

ANIMALFOOD(blank)

ANIMALFOOD(example)

Inspiration template for organizing research information about an animal's diet and food preferences.

ANIMALHABITAT(blank)

ANIMALHABITAT(example)

Inspiration template for organizing research information about the habitat where the animal is found.

WHYENDANGERED(blank)

WHYENDANGERED(example)

Inspiration template for organizing research information about the factors for why the animal is endangered.

AnimalsOrganizer.cws This is an AW slideshow template for organizing and presenting information gathered during research about an animal. (habitat, food, etc.)  It has the same appearance as the Inspiration templates above, but it may be easier for some students to complete.
AnimalOrganizer(example) This is a completed example of the AW slideshow above.

Additional Templates
Endangered Animal DB AW Database

Students entered their animal information into this database and used it to quiz one another and their parents on the animals they had researched.

Click to Download - Requires Appleworks)

  Graphic Organizer Templates for this unit.
AnimalResearch
AnimalResearch.pdf
Animal Research is a graphic organizer template that can be printed or used to enter data on the computer.

AnimalResearchPage1
AnimalResearchPage1.pdf
This is side 1 of a graphic organizer similar to the one above.

AnimalResearchPage2
AnimalResearchPage2.pdf
This is side 2 of this graphic organizer.

ILikeAnimalBecause.cws
ILikeAnimalBecause.pdf
 

WhatAmI.cws
WhatAmI.pdf
 

EndangeredDBBlank.cws This is a blank database file used for the database project described above.

AW Templates (Click to Download - Require Appleworks)
(.pdf versions for printing only)


Videos

Using DB True/False Quiz (Gowman)

Using guide questions and graphic organizers, students used texts and web-based sources to gather information about endangered animals. They then entered this information and true/false statements based upon their information into an Appleworks data base. They later used the several predesigned database forms to answer one anothers true/false questions and to print a version of the quiz for their parents to complete at home.

Using iBooks in the Classroom to Gather and Organize Information (Salladino)

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