Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting To Know All About You: the Endangered Species Introduction

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in a game designed to familiarize themselves with their classmates and introduce a unit on endangered species. They each have an endangered species name taped to their back and must determine the species name by...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting to Know All About You

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn each other's name and at the same time become familiar with the name of an endangered species. Without the student watching, their name and the name of an endangered species is placed on their back with tape. Students go...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Comma Worksheet 2

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students insert all necessary commas in fourteen sentences. Students check to make sure that each sentence is grammatically correct.
Article
Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Species Spotlight: Ord's Kangaroo Rat

For Students 9th - 10th
Fact sheet giving information about the endangered Ord's kangaroo rat, which lives in the sand hills of southern Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: High Jumpers

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text tree kangaroos and current efforts to protect them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Stephen's Kangaroo Rat

For Students 4th - 8th
Stephen's Kangaroo Rat is endangered, chiefly due to habitat loss. It lives only in isolated populations in three counties of southern California. Learn more about the Dipodomys stephensi, more commonly known as a Stephen's Kangaroo Rat,...