Introduction
The Woolly Mammoth is one of the most well known animals that is now extinct.
There are a variety of animals that are extinct today because of many reasons. Some of these animals you may have read about in a book or seen in a movie. Ice Age and 10,000 B.C. are both movies that feature animals that are extinct today.
Definitions to remember:
Extinct: A speciesor family of animals that has no living members or is no longer in existence.
Endangered: A species that is seriously at risk of extinction.
Standards Addressed:
SPI 0407.5.2 – Infer the possible reasons why a species became endangered or extinct.
Task
The Saber Tooth Tiger is also another well known animal that is extinct today.
You are a detective. Your assignment is to find out the main causes why animals have gone or are going extinct. Remember, extinct is when a species or family of animals that has no living members or is no longer in existence.
I have gathered some articles for you to look through. You are to read through this information with your partner. While you read, you will be searching for clues or evidence within the text to help you determine why animals have become extinct. When you find a clue or some evidence, write the it down in your detective notebook so that you can look at it later.
After you and your partner have written down at least two clues in each article in your detective notebook, you and your partner will review the clues that you've found. From these clues, you and your partner will determine one main cause of the extinction of animals.
After you have read these general directions, please click "Process" at the top to continue to the next step.
Process
Ice Age (https://www.createwebquest.com/index.php?q=image/view/28587)
Step One:
*Instruction: With your partnet, answer these questions in your detective notebook.
What does it mean to be extinct?
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Step Two:
*Instruction: Read each of these articles and find at least two clues in each article. Write the clues that you find in your detective notebook.
-Why are Endangered Species Important?
-Extinct Species by Region of the World
Step Three:
*Instruction: You should now have at least ten clues written in your detective notebook. With your partner, review these clues. Think about the clues that you read about most. Were there any clues that you read in all of the articles?
-After finishing all of these steps, please continute to the "Evaluation" tab.
Evaluation
Evaluation
*Instruction: Now that you have reviewed the clues with your partner, work together to determine one main reason why animals go extinct.
After you have selected one main reason why animals go extinct, put up you iPads or computers and go back to your seat.
*** DO NOT WORK WITH YOUR PARTNER FROM THIS POINT FORWARD ***
Then, without your partner, take out a sheet of notebook paper and write an informative paragraph about one main reason why animals go extinct.
Once you are finished, turn in your paragraph into the first tray.
If you finish before anyone else, look to the board to see what you should be working on.
Conclusion
Class discussion will be here.
Classroom conclusion will be typed here by the teacher. The students will tell the teacher what to type and she will type it.
Questions for students:
Do you think that humans cause some animals to go extinct? How so?
What can we do to stop this?
Do you think people think a lot about endangered species?