Guiding+Activity-Jillian

Group HIMM Guiding Activity - Jillian Hartman

Essential Question: How can we change our ways for the good (of a specific animal) harmed by our actions?


 * Pose pre-viewing guiding question, “Why do you think polar bears weigh less than they used to?” Record student thoughts before starting video.
 * Watch video segment, “Mammals on the Arctic’s Ice Platform: Caribou, Polar Bear, and Walrus” [5:46] [|__http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=833a2489-6b59-4a99-a4f0-3f1e667fc578#__]
 * Revisit pre-viewing guiding question answers before posing post-viewing question, “How will shrinking ice affect polar bears?”
 * Pose guiding question, “How can we change our ways to help the polar bears survive?”
 * Read online student newsletter to learn ways we can help in our own homes: [|__http://www.savebiogems.org/polar/polaraction.pdf__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Send an online letter to Interior Secretary Salazar urging him to help save the polar bears. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=484&JServSessionIdr004=xutyhmwur3.app306a__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Give reasons polar bears are in danger, what you will do to help out in your own home, why it is important for us to save these animals in this specific ecosystem.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online form has a pre-typed message relating to The Endangered Species Act. Students will delete pre-typed message, and craft their own. Address of the school and teacher email will be used in online form.