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Summary:

Students will visit with Bulwagi, an African Savanna Elephant at the Birmingham Zoo and learn how Bulwaigi helped the zoo design elephant trackers to help conserve elephants in the wild. 

Activity

In this engineering design challenge, students will go on a journey with educators from the zoo and, through an interactive video, work to design a device to help track elephants in the wild. 

Connections to Other Resources

This virtual field trip is included in the Save the Elephants Project. 

 

Overview & Materials

Subject: Science, ELA

Grade: 3-5

Student Handouts (Download)

Topic: Conservation, engineering, critical thinking

Materials Needed:

  • Pen, pencil 

  • Scratch or scrap paper for notes

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.2: Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
NGSS Standards:
  • 5-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
  • 3-5-ETS1-1 Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
  • NGSS Science and Engineering Practice 2: Developing and using models
  • NGSS Science and Engineering Practice 6: Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering).

Course Content

A.1 Big Ears, Big Challenges
A.2 The Ivory Trade
A.3 Habitat Loss
A.4 Elephant Design Challenge
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