Discuss the crowding, loss of personal space, loss of home and personal effects, etc. Further discussion will focus on what happens when spaces are encroached upon. Summarize the effects of changes in, or loss of, one's environment. Analyze the article with students. Assign a group to prepare a bulletin board on which to display other topical information.
Students share collected information.
Connect the local articles with string to their locations on the area map. Solicit suggestions of endangered species in the Thompson-Okanagan region. Inform students that there are official lists which state which species are at risk. Elicit from students what they think the difference would be between the Red List and the Blue List . Check these lists to see if the suggestions from the students are on the Thompson-Okanagan list.