Animals

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• Endangered Species - Lessons designed for students to explore and investigate endangered animals. The students will use a range of technologies and media to gather, analyse and present a report and a multimedia presentation based on researched evidence.
• Spring Haiku - Students read and write haiku about animals in spring.
• Wildlife Preservers - Students will learn more about endangered animals and how they might be preserved.
• Don't Just Sit There—Do Something! - Students will become involved in efforts to preserve endangered species and environments
• Search for the Humpback Whale - Students explore whale adaptations, behavior, migration, habitat, communication, and interactions with humans and present their findings.
• Vanished! - Students will research and explain how certain types of animals became extinct.
• Animals on Call - Students study how animals improve the lives of people in need.
• Animal Poems - Students investigate the characteristics, behavior, and habitat of a particular animal species. They demonstrate their knowledge by writing poems that incorporate what they have learned.

Web Quests

• Is Kim Ready for a Dog? - A little girl is wondering if she should get a dog now with her parents permission. She gets her friends to find out the cost, the training issues, time management issues, and find out what kind of dog she should get.

Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White - Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
• Circling Vultures by Sylvia Sikundar - In this novel, 15-year-old Jason leaves Canada to revisit Africa and his childhood friend, Peter, only to realize the country has changed. Their friendship is tested when Peter's father, Kyondo, is suspected of poaching. Themes include poaching, justice, the law, and killing wild animals for trophies.
• Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel - When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
• Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel - Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
• Sounder by William Armstrong - Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
• White Fang by Jack London - The story a young man who journeys to Alaska during the gold rush and faces the challenges of nature and human greed while befriending a wolf-dog.
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George - While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
• The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford - A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.
• The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat - In this story there is a boy and he had a dog named Mutt. The dog thought that he could be more than a dog.
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London - The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

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