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Virtual Field Trip: The Jaguar Challenge

Summary:

Students will journey to Central America and work with a conservationist from the Birmingham zoo to help solve a pressing problem jaguars face in the wild: habitat loss. 

Activity

Students will engage in an interactive video about a real-life conservation effort and then design their own solutions to help address jaguar conservation issues. 

Connections to Other Resources

This virtual field trip compliments our Save the Rainforests Project. 

 

Overview & Materials

Subject: Science

Grade: 3-5

Student Handouts (Download)

Topic: Conservation, habitat, species adaptation.

Materials Needed:

  • Note paper

  • Pen or pencil

Project Materials

Student Lessons

Project Notebook

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):

  • 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.
  • 3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
  • 3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.*

Course Content

3. Let’s Play…What’s Behind Door #1?
4. The Jaguar Corridor Challenge.
5. Check Your Predictions.
6. How Would You Have Solved the Problem?
7. Ask a Jaguar Expert.
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