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Lesson Overview
Showcased Write-up: “2021 Has Been a Poor Yr for Manatees” by Johnny Diaz
What do you know about the light and lovable, but odd-looking, manatee, in some cases identified as the sea cow? Have you at any time found one?
Regrettably, in Florida, manatees are dying at an alarming charge. In the previous year, the condition has lost about 10 per cent of its inhabitants.
In this lesson, you will study about the manatee and the risks the species faces. In a Likely Additional activity, you will make a poster to advise others how they can help these gentle giants.
Heat-Up
Element 1: Give your warm will take on animals.
Before examining the post, tell us your views on the animal kingdom using the following prompts:
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I believe the most stunning animal is _________.
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I imagine the coolest animal is _________.
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I think the scariest animal is _________.
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I feel the funniest animal is _________.
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I think the strangest animal is _________.
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I believe the cutest animal is _________.
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My beloved animal is _________.
Share your record with a associate. Then, mirror with each other: Did you have any animals in widespread? Did both of you consist of the gradual-relocating but lovable manatee on your lists?
Element 2: Study about the manatee.
View the a few-moment movie beneath, “Manatees Are the ‘Sea Cows’ of the Coasts,” by Nat Geo Wild. Then, solution the pursuing inquiries in creating or in a dialogue with a associate:
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What are two points you discovered about manatees?
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What is 1 problem you have about them?
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The movie phone calls manatees “gentle giants.” Do you agree with this description? What adjective would you use to describe the manatee?
Vocabulary:
Here are 12 words you are going to find in this write-up that you may well not know:
1. alarming 2. worrisome 3. decrease 4. startling 5. estuary 6. graze 7. lagoon 8. sewage 9. septic 10. algae 11. malnutrition 12. collision
Which words and phrases are you familiar with? Which are new to you?
Go to Vocabulary.com to find out what every single word signifies and to exercise working with them.
Issues for Writing and Dialogue
Simply click through and examine the article earlier mentioned as a slide demonstrate, or go through it in this article as a PDF. If you want to master more about the potential risks facing manatees, you can read a extended version of the write-up in this article. Then, solution the adhering to inquiries:
1. Look at the photographs in the posting: What do they notify you about manatees and how they dwell?
2. What is one particular new reality you discovered about manatees from the short article? What is just one new problem you have about them?
3. How quite a few manatees in Florida have died so considerably in 2021? How does that number look at with past several years?
4. What are two explanations for the manatees’ deaths?
5. The post does not specify how to secure the life of manatees in Florida. But centered on what you discovered about the factors for their deaths, what is just one achievable answer you would endorse?
6. Explain or draw a manatee for an individual who has hardly ever witnessed a single. How would you capture the animal’s exceptional form, dimension, motion and temperament?
Going Even further
Selection 1: Make a poster to advise the public about the plight of manatees.
How can you tell other people about what you have realized from the posting?
You may use details from the short article or your have exploration to develop a poster. You can draw your poster or use Canva or yet another graphic design and style program to generate your designs. Then, share what you built by way of social media or with friends at your faculty.
Who would be your target viewers — young adults, grownups or the normal community? What message do you want to talk? What do you want your audience to know about the potential risks experiencing manatees? What form of language, pictures and graphics will grab their focus?
For your poster, consist of:
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A drawing or picture of a manatee
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One statistic from the write-up
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Just one rationale for their modern fatalities
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A person attainable way that we can all assist secure this animal
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A tagline or information
Possibility 2: Find out about a lot more endangered and threatened animals.
Manatees are federally guarded less than the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Defense Act.
Stop by the Globe Wildlife Fund for Character to master much more about which animals all around the earth are endangered and threatened. What do you detect about the record of endangered animals? Are any of the animals from the listing you developed in the heat-up action endangered or threatened?
Then, pick out one particular endangered or threatened animal to exploration.
Obtain out at minimum two points about the animal you chose to analysis, one particular explanation for their decline, and one particular probable way we can superior secure them. Share what you realized with your class.
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