Endangered/Extinct 2009

2009 EXTINCT and ENDANGERED SPECIES PROJECT



Select an extinct animal whose common name or scientific name that starts with the same letter as your first name. Select an endangered animal that begins with the same letter as your last name. You may flip-flop so the extinct animal begins with the same letter as your last name. Use the Internet or books to find information about your animals. Be certain you have found consistent verified information on each animal prior to beginning your written work. You will use this information to create one Prezi(extra credit)/Glogster(extra credit)/PowerPoint/Google Docs presentation representing both species (animals). Several slides per animal will be necessary for the presentation. Students must have three citations per animal (six total) by Thursday Dec. 10th.


Your Presentation should include:

The common name and the scientific name (Genus and species) of your animals

Drawing/Images of each animal for presentation (select large or extra-large image file sizes)

One to two paragraphs per animal on 5x8 size note cards (these 5x8 cards will be turned in at the time of the presentation) – These typed paragraphs should incorporate the following information for each animal:


Description of the animal including size, coloration/s, characteristics


Information about where it lived or lives (region/country & mountainous, wooded areas, desert, near water, etc.)


Reasons for extinction or endangerment


Steps being taken to save the endangered animal


Interesting facts about each animal

Works Cited-All sources of information (pictures too) correctly listed in MLA format on the last slide of the presentation



Your presentation should last one minute and thirty seconds (45 seconds per animal)

This sheet must be submitted with your oral presentation



Due Date: ____12/16/09__________________________

Endangered Species/Extinct Species



Species Name _________________________________________


Neatness, Mechanics, Followed directions, Names_____________


Image / Drawing(2), Web sites, scientific name _____________


Size, Where it lives/lived,  Reasons, Steps to save it/When it lived _____________


ORAL __________

TOTAL _____________

Rubric 4-point maximum-seven scores will be averaged to the nearest whole number


Begin your search on “endangered or extinct species” using the research tools below:

2009

ENDANGERED:

Begin with this website:

http://eelink.net/EndSpp/

After clicking on site below scroll to bottom of page and use search box to find information about your species:

http://endangeredspecie.com/search1.htm


EXTINCT:

http://extinct.petermaas.nl/extinct/
http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/enexpg.htm



Hawaii’s extinct species:

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/endangered/extinct.html
http://midwest.fws.gov/endangered/lists/extinct.html


Once you have found your two species then using their genus and species name you can
go to google,com and plug in the correct name and/or search the websites below:

http://www.animalinfo.org/

Librarians Guide to Internet below: scroll down the list to find various Endangered Species websites

http://lii.org/search?query=Endangered+species;searchtype=subject

Animal diversity web University of Michigan:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html


From sierra club some species are featured here:
http://northcarolina.sierraclub.org/medoc/environment/endanger.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/25014/english.index.shtml

Chapter 4 Notebook

The Chapter 4 Notebook consisted of the following work in this order:


Pts Items

3 Section reviews

6 R&R ws p 95,96,99,100,103,104

2 CA Test Prep p 126-127(1-26)

3 vocab list14