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Endangered Species Exploration
Teach your students the importance of text features with informational readings about endangered species around the world. This lesson on wildlife doubles as a great way for young learners to hone their reading comprehension skills.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the main features of a text. They will also be able to compare and contrast two different animals using a Venn diagram.
Introduction
(20 minutes)
- Tell students that they will be learning about a few endangered species around the world.
- Write the word species on the board, and ask for a few volunteers to define the word.
- Discuss and write the definition of species on the board: a category of living things identified by a two-part scientific name. Give an example, e.g. homo sapiens.
- Write the word endangered on the board, and ask for a few volunteers to define the word.
- Discuss and write the definition of endangered on the board: threatened by extinction.
- As a class, create a definition for the phrase "endangered species," and write it on the board.
- Explain to the students they are going to watch a video clip about an endangered species called the Sumatran Rhinoceros, then play the Wildlife Documentaries 2015: The Most Endangered Animals video clip. Stop at 18:45.
