Cooperative groups review and correlate value descriptors with the literature from several organizations concerned with protecting and enhancing habitats and saving endangered species. Students write a commercial to inform people of ways to enhance healthy habitats. Hawk, I'm Your Brother and Amigo . They compare and contrast these works as they identify examples of people's actions that show respect for living things. They determine which animals make good pets and which do not.
Students develop a list of actions that can be taken to help species survive.
They select some of these actions to illustrate and implement. Students listen to descriptions of projects conducted by other classes. They brainstorm a list of action projects for protecting one or more species and their habitats. Students select and implement a class project that they will conduct on the school grounds or in their community. Evaluation Students evaluate their understandings about ecosystems by completing oral, written, and pictorial assessment tasks.