Students will become
involved in efforts to preserve endangered species.
What You Need
Access to the Internet
Nature and conservation publications.
What To Do
1. Work
with a partner or small group. Explore opportunities to help preserve
endangered animals. Find many ideas in nature and conservation publications or
at the web sites of organizations such as:
o
National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/action/
o
Endangered Species 2000, look in the ÒHowÓ section of this
website:
http://library.thinkquest.org/25014/english.index.shtml?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0429
2. Choose an endangered
species project for the class to focus on, and then plan ways to tackle it:
o
writing to government agencies
o
composing letters or articles for local newspapers
o
making posters
o
raising money
*The web sites offer specific directions for writing to Congress,
organizing community efforts, and other forms of action.
3. Set specific goals (a certain number of letters to Congressperson X;
posters in a certain number of venues; etc.) and dates by which to meet them.
4. Start a bulletin board
containing information about the project's progress as well as news stories and
other information about the species and its habitat.
Note: You are making an action plan as to what the class could
do to
get involved with this projectÉ you are not necessarily doing things like
raising money.