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Lesson Plan Two – Wolffish
Activity 3: Wolffish – Educating Others
Curriculum Connections
Science: Grades 4-6
- Describe and draw wolffish
- Discuss the role of wolffish as a part of the ecosystem
- Explain why wolffish are at risk
- Describe what is being done to help protect wolffish
- Express concern for how human activities can impact wolffish survival
Language Arts: Grade 4-6
- Make deliberate language choices appropriate to purpose, audience and form, to enhance meaning and to achieve interesting effects in writing and other ways of representing
- Determine from a variety the form style and content suitable to the specific audience and purpose
- Use the conventions of written language ins final products
- Invite responses to early drafts of writing/media productions
- Use audience reaction to help shape drafts
Objectives:
Students will use research to gain information about wolffish and develop an educational poster tailored to a specific audience.
Materials Required:
- Reference materials from the Species at Risk Education Kit
- Library Books
- Access to the Internet
- Poster board
- Pens, pencils, markers, crayons
Let's get started!
Informing people about a species, why they are at risk, and how we can all help protect them is a critical part of protecting species. The more people know about a species the more interest they will have in that species and the more knowledge they will have about ways to protect the species.
In this project students will develop educational posters. The can choose one of two audiences for their messages, children or fishermen. They will need to consider the audience carefully when developing the poster.
The poster should explain why wolffish need to be protected and what can be done to protect them by each audience.
When the posters are complete hang them in the classroom or school and discuss them in class.
Talk about it! Adapt these questions to further your discussion.
- What kind of language should you use when talking to children?
- What kind of language should you use when talking to fishermen?
- How can children help protect wolffish?
- What kind's of images are eye-catching and appeal to your specific audiences?
- When you compare the posters for children to the ones for fishermen, how are they different? Why are they different?
- What messages are you trying to get across?
- How can a poster help species at risk?
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