You can start by looking up a Canadian species that is at risk of disappearing forever.
Here is the project details:
Extinction
is Forever!
Endangered Species Presentation
When a species becomes extinct, it
disappears and can never re-appear.
Before becoming extinct, the species is usually identified as being at
risk in one of the following categories, from most at risk to less at risk:
extirpated, endangered, threatened, and special concern.
As habitats change and disappear, many
species face the risk of extinction, unless we act to protect them. Your assignment is to prepare a presentation
to describe one “at risk” species. Your
presentation should attempt to persuade the reader to take steps to help
preserve the animal and prevent its extinction.
Sign-up for a species with your teacher so that no one does the same
species.
Your poster or power-point should include the following
regarding your species:
- Picture, sketch, or drawing 0 1 2 3 4 5
- Food chain including the organism 0 1 2 3 4 5
- Specific locations where it’s found 0 1 2
- On the back of the page, define: 0 1 2
extirpated, endangered & threatened (& say which one
your species is)
Definitions found in the website glossary: http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/about/glossary/default_e.cfm
- List any problems that led it to be at
risk 0 1 2 3
(what went wrong & what can
we do to help it …?)
- Presentation to class 0 1 2 3 4 6 8
Here is what you need to present to the class:
o
Show a picture or drawing
o
Say if it is extirpated, endangered, or threatened
and give that one definition
o
Say where it is found, what it eats, and what eats
it
o
Say if it is a producer or consumer and what order
consumer it is
o
Say what we can do to help it!
TOTAL /25
Bonus
options:
- Find out its current
population;
- What efforts are
being done to help it;
- What can we do to
help it?
- Write a letter to a government
official stating your concerns and asking what the government is doing to
help this species (maybe we’ll even send it to see what they say!)
