Erasmus+ Endangered Animals

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

What are Global Goals 14 & 15 about?

Erasmus+

Today's programme

Topic = Endangered animals

• What are endangered animals?
• Video assignment 
• Creating a fact file on an endangered animal (we will continue with this in the next meeting)

Endangered animals

Video assignment

• Go to Classroom
• Open the file 'Endangered Animals - video assignment'
• Click on the link in the document and watch the documentary (12 mins)
• Answer the questions while watching the documentary

1. What can be a species? Name at least 2 different species.

2. What does ‘endangered’ mean?

3. What does the International Union for Conservation of Nature inform people about?

1. your carbon dioxide footprint
2. what species is at risk of extinction
3. how animals can best be conserved in museums

4. How many categories does the IUCN use?

1. 3
2. 8
3. 10

5. How many big mass extinctions have been there in geologic history?

1. 5
2. 10
3. 25

6. What wiped out the dinosaurs?

1. a disease
2. a flood
3. an asteroid

7. Natural extinction is when

1. a species becomes extinct because of natural disasters
2. a species declines gradually
3. a species mutates

8. Why is only a tiny fraction of all the species that have ever lived on the planet alive today?

1. because of human activity
2. because there is not enough space
3. because there has always been evolutionary adaptation

What happens if one organism in an ecosystem vanishes?

1. It gets replaced immediately.
2. There is a serious imbalance.
3. Nothing

10. How many species are threatened with extinction?

1. 3000 species
2. 13000 species
3. 31000 species

11. Why are species endangered nowadays?

12. How can we turn these problems around?

Creating a fact file

You are going to create a fact file on an endangered animal. What will you do today?

• Pairs
• Choose an animal
• Put your choice in the google document (an animal can only be used once)
• Use the IUCN Red List (the link is in Classroom)

Next week you will learn how to make a fact file. 

1. Britta & Daantje

2. Duco & Florian

3.  Inaya & Leah

4. Haik & Michiel

5. Lieke & Ravel

6. Loïs & Louisa & Vera

7. Morris & Mozés

8. Nathan & Owen

9. Rebekka & Svéa

10. Roald & Timo

11. Tamara & Zoë

12. Willem & Xander