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CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
-GRADE 4
The BC Ministry of Education encourages cross-curricular studies.
One of these cross-curricular areas is Environment and Sustainability and one of the theme studies identified by the Ministry is Endangered
Species.
Personal Planning (Career Development):
Arrange for your visitors (scientists, naturalists, museum personnel, etc.) to share information about their careers.
Write thank you letters to these visitors.
Make a scrapbook of pictures of all the different careers involved in the study of endangered species.
Art:
Make your own endangered species using the
ideas in Barbara Reid's Playing with Plasticine.
Use Joan Irvine's Pop-Ups to create your favourite animal in paper
form. Photographs of student art can be published on the Internet; join
The Wild Ones.
Language Arts:
Write build-up books for
each habitat, puzzle books, list poems and origin stories; use
McCrackens' Themes book on Animals as a teaching guide.
If your students are writing origin stories check out "Creation
Stories and Traditional Wisdom" on the Internet. Students
can publish their writing at this site, or on The Wild Ones.
Social Studies:
Check out the website for Eagle Ridge Elementary School. Students can
become "Earth Warriors" -- people who care about endangered
animals!
Image Credit: photo of Showy Phlox by Steve Cannings
this section sponsored by: 
Industry Canada
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