Guiding+Activity-Kirsten

Group HIMM Guiding Question and Activity-Kirsten Innes

What plants and animals have become threatened, endangered, extirpated or extinct in your ecosystem?
 * Visit [|__http://www.neok12.com/Ecosystems.htm__]  to view videos on ecosystems and learn about the vocabulary. Using at least 10 of ecosystem vocabulary words, create a crossword puzzle at [|__http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=55101597&CFTOKEN=91398443__]
 * Visit: [|__http://www.dnr.state.il.us/ORC/list_tande_bycounty.pdf__]

to determine what species have become threatened or endangered in your county in Illinois. (Lake County is on p. 32)
 * Are they plants, animals, or both? Use the __Illinois Field Guides__  to help you find the answers.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using the pictures found on the flickr sites:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.flickr.com/groups/1060082@N25/, (Illinois animals) and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.flickr.com/photos/petirrojo/sets/72157602057231183/with/53432760/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (Illinois Prairie plants at FermiLab) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">create a Glogster, Prezi, Animoto, Voicethread, or other multimedia presentation to find pictures of at least one of the species on the Threatened and Endangered list for Lake County.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visit the Fermilab site and explore the links there to see what is being restored: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/campus/ecology/index.html
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can you determine why some species are listed as endangered and others are listed as threatened? To help answer this question, use the resources at

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://ed.fnal.gov/data/prairie_resources.shtml__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What can we do, if anything, to help any of those species? What is being done by others? (Fermilab for instance) What about our prairie in the back of the school?

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