Discovery Page

Explore different zoos across America. Learn about endangered animals, conservation, and how habitats play an important part in the survival of every living creature. Your Discovery Journal will be handed out in class, make sure your name is prineted clearly on cover page. You have the remaining week in class to finish all three activities. Go through each activity and put your answers in your Discovery Journal. Have Fun!


Activity 1

What is an endangered animal? An endangered animal is any animal that will become extinct if not protected. Remember extinct means gone forever!!

Travel to each zoo and find four different endangered animals. Write each endangered animal down in your Discovery Journal.

You can travel to each zoo by clicking on the zoo name.

Central Florida Zoological Park

The Toledo Zoo

The Wilds

Los Angeles Zoo


Activity 2

The Conservation Experience!

What is conservation?

Conservation is a way that we can help save and protect living things. It is important that we help our environment by recycling, and reducing the use of natural resources, this will help us protect all living creatures!

Activity: Design a conservation poster to help an endangered animal . Pick your animal from the list found below. In your poster you should include a drawing of your animal, why it is endangered, and what can be done to help conserve that animal.

* Make your poster colorful and interesting !

Find out about different endangered animals and what it means to be endangered by clicking on the cheetahs

CLICK ON CHEETAHS!

Cheetahs Cheetahs are an endangered animal.

To learn more about recycling click here!


Activity 3

Look at the pictures below, find out about each animals habitat and why it might be endangered Journey to both the Brevard Zoo and the Jacksonville Zoo.

Macaw Macaw Giraffe Giraffe

African Elephant Elephant alligator alligator

Hippopotamus Hippo Panda BearPanda bear

Click here to learn more about habitats.


You to can help protect animals and there habitats. Here are some more great conservation websites! Check them out!

World Wild Life Fund for Kids

National Geographic for Kids

Here are some books to check out! (Sunlink)

Conservation and Pollution by Laurence Santrey

Protecting Endangered Species by Felicity Brooks

 

 

 

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