How can we help endangered animals? Learn about which animals are endangered and what people can do to protect them with a lesson based on Carl Hiaasen's Hoot. After completing a KWHL chart to note what they already know and what they would like to know, kids conduct research on endangered animals and create an electronic presentation to demonstrate what they have learned.

Concepts

endangered species, carl hiaasen, making predictions, heroism

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Add to a science unit on endangered animals, and couple with your language arts lesson on Hoot
• Have kids work in groups or partners to complete the research and presentation

Classroom Considerations

• Duration for the lesson isn't clear, but it will probably require several days (or longer) to complete the research and presentation components

Pros

• A good way to combine science and language arts
• Provides an example and graphic organizer for the KWHL chart

Cons

• None