Assessment
Students will create a poster explaining the project
they conducted to help local habitats. In the poster, students
will use text, pictures and photographs to identify a problem
affecting local habitats and show what the students did to
help these local habitats. Students will hang the poster somewhere
where other students can see them.
Scoring
rubric (out of 5 points)
- Create
poster: 1 point
- Identify
a problem in the local area affecting wildlife habitats:
1 point
- Use
text and pictures to show what students did to help local
habitats: 2 points
- Display
poster where others can see it: 1 point
- Total:
5 points
Cross-Curricular
Extensions
Social Studies Extension
Have students write a letter to the mayor or a town
council member explaining ways these officials could help
habitats in the local area. Have students volunteer to participate
in any community activity that is proposed.
Language
Arts Extension
Read The Lorax by Dr. Seuss with the students.
Have the students think about which living things had become
locally extinct in the book (truffula trees, brown bar-ba-loots,
swomee-swans, humming-fish and lorax). Have students determine
what happened to their habitat that caused them to go extinct
and what could have been done to prevent their extinction.
Art
Extension
Have students take before and after photographs of changes
made to a habitat, such as a habitat before and after a
litter pick-up. Take a photograph of another habitat or
developed area. Have students draw pictures of how this
habitat might be changed to better support wildlife.
Third
Grade Language Arts extension by SCA Master teacher,
Barbara Kulisek, Hilton Head Elementary School
