Endangered Animals Project

Setting the Scene

You are an endangered Australian native animal and you are to go to a zoo in another country.

You need to tell the zookeepers there about yourself and how to care for you.

Resources

Go to these sites and choose what animal you are going to be:

Click here »»»» Endangered Australian Animals

You may find other sites and also use books to research your chosen animal.

Your Task

Tell the zookeepers how to recognise you.	Write about size, shape, colour, covering, features. Include drawings or photos.
Tell them what features the enclosure they are getting ready for you will need to have to suit you.	Write about the habitat you live in in the wild. What activities must it enable you to do? What shelter must it provide?
Tell them what they will feed you.	Write about what you eat in the wild.

What to do

Go here and download the data chart where you can make notes as you research your animal.

Use your notes to write a report about the animal, its habitat and needs. This will form the basis of your final presentation. In your report you must note the sources of your information.

Design your enclosure at the zoo, making drawings and a map of it. Assume that money is no object, and that there is plenty of space. The drawings and map will form part of your final presentation.

Presentation Ideas to choose from:

1. Go here to download your Zoo Animal Introduction Page to write your final report for the zoo.
2. Design your own multimedia presentation on computer.
3. Prepare and present a talk to representatives of the zoo.

Evaluation

Go here to download your self assessment form

Australian Animals Data Chart

Name:

Animal:

What do you look like? (size, colour, shape, features)

What features will the enclosure need to have to suit you? (habitat, activity, shelter)

What will they feed you? (diet in the wild)

Zoo Animal Introduction Page

I am an Australian animal. I am a____________________________________

This is what I look like

My special features are:

My food in the wild and how I get it

How and where I live in the wild

A message to the designers of my new home in _________________________ Zoo:

Note your information sources here: do it like this for an internet information source

Bilby. (2000). [Online], Available: www.kidcyber.com.au

Source
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/Austanquest2.htm