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Sub Plan - Fighting for Foxes

Summary

In order to help understand the complexity of the issues surrounding protecting endangered species, students read an article about the Channel Island fox published in the Smithsonian magazine in October 2004. They create and use food webs to better understand the reasons for the foxes decline. This is a superb follow up to the Food Webs activity.

Objectives

Can recognize how habitat change affects the organisms living in that habitat.
Can understand the complexity involved in protecting endangered species.
Can create a food web.

Channel island fox
Channel island fox from the National Park Service website

Vocabulary

Endangered species
Food web
Habitat

Attachment Size
sub_foxes.doc 46 KB
fox_article.pdf 165.84 KB
fox_reading_questions.doc 29.5 KB
Submitted by irene on Sun, 2005-08-28 15:15