Rhinoceroses Lesson Plans

1. Journey to a Wildlife Park
...mentary Objective: Students will identify similarities and differences between Rehema's life and culture, and their own. Materials Needed: 1. The book, Rehema's Journey A Visit in Tanzania, by Barbara A. Margolies. 2. A map of Tanzania within Africa. 3. Various pictures of African wildlife: Zebras, Rhinoceroses, Hippopotamuses, Giraffes, Lions, Tigers, etc. Procedures: 1. Focus the students by telling them that they are going to be learning about a little girl about their age, named Rehema. Tell them that Rehema is much like them. She goes to school and learns math, reading, writing, and art. She has frien...

2. Rhino Rescue Lesson Plan
Crayola Submit Register for FREE! Join the Crayola community today. Rhino Rescue Why Stop hunting and poaching! Rhinoceroses are an endangered species in Africa. Imagine you are on a nature reserve in Botswana working to conserve these precious animals. Steps 1. At the end of the 20th century, African rhinoceroses came close to extinction. Why? Rhino horns were very valuable. They were sold to make medicines and dagger ha...

3. Frog or Toad? How Can You Tell? Lesson Plan
...f the lists. What do frogs and toads have in common? What differences do you notice? What surprised you? Safety Guidelines Adaptations Repeat this activity in smaller groups, comparing other similar animals such as alligators and crocodiles; butterflies and moths; birds and bats; hippopotamuses and rhinoceroses; or cheetahs, leopards, and jaguars. Be the public relations team for frogs and toads in your community! Find out more about amphibian habitats in your region. Visit them as a class if possible. Work with your team to create a newsletter of articles about your amphibian. Speak out about endangered a...

4. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
...? The leopard. o Do you think this place is like where we live? Discuss the plains and the highlands of Kenya, and discuss that not all places in Kenya look like this picture because there are beaches, swamps, etc. Pages 3-4: + The wildlife in Kenya is diverse. There are elephants, giraffes, lions, rhinoceroses, zebras, antelope, buffalo, cheetahs, leopards, crocodiles, eagles, ostriches, storks, and more. o What are these animals? Pages 7-8: o In this picture it is very dry, what is it called when an area doesn't have water and it is very dry? Drought. Pages 9-10: + Most of the people in Kenya live in rur...

5. Now Hear This!
...nals Job -pens/pencils Opportunities -paper -markers -poster board -classroom blackboard -copies of "Eavesdropping on Secrets of Elephant Society" (one per student) -reference materials with information about the following animals that use infrasonic sounds to communicate: African forest elephants, rhinoceroses, alligators, okapis, and giraffes (computers with Internet access, encyclopedias, textbooks, library references) Activities / Procedures: 1. WARM-UP/DO NOW: As a class, conduct the following experiment. Cover a bowl with plastic wrap and secure it tightly with a rubber band. Sprinkle a few grains of...

6. STAS - PEI Science and Technology Awareness Site
...on Mo Species Under Threat: http://www.wcmc.org.uk/species/data/ species_sheets/blackrhi.htm World Wide Fund for Nature WWF: Virtual Wildlife-Rhinoceros: http://www.panda.org/kids/wildlife/ mnrhino.htm The page of the Black Rhino: http://www.bergen.org/Smithsonian/BlackRhino /index.html Rhinoceros: Rhinoceroses Breed Through the Year: http://planetpet.simplenet.com/plnrhno.htm WWF Living Planet Campaign: Saving Endangered Species: Rhino Facts: http://www.panda.org/livingplanet/species/ rhinofacts.htm Conservationist: A conservationist is active in the conservation of natural resources. Your duty is to ensu...

7. Wild Wildlife
...Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna, or CITES (http://www.wcmc.org.uk/CITES/english/ index.html). Health- Examine both sides of the debate regarding endangered or threatened animals whose various body parts are said to possess health benefits (such as tigers, rhinoceroses, sharks, and elephants). Mathematics- Obtain statistics on, and then graph, the size of an endangered or threatened animal population, such as the wild tiger, over time. Other Information on the Web Cat Specialist Group -IUCN: The World Conservation Union (http:// lynx.uio.no/catfolk/) provides advi...

8. Use or Abuse?
...would help a plant from being vulnerable? What would happen to humans if plants were negatively affected? What is your, the narrator's, role in this entire process? GROUP 7: FOOD PRODUCTION Your group's task is to write about nature as parent of commonly harvested or hunted species, like snappers, rhinoceroses and gray whales. How do you, the narrator, help these populations grow and thrive in large numbers? What causes their populations to shrink, and why are you unable to stop this rate of decline? What would happen if you lost your ability to nurture these populations of animals? GROUP 8: ECO-TOURISM Y...

9. La Vie en Cave!
...nd temperature within the cave, as well as the bacteriology and growth of concretions." "The discovery caused a shock. Specialists and non-specialists alike immediately recognized its importance and originality for several reasons. First, the nature of the bestiary represented is very unusual, with rhinoceroses, lions, and bears. The animals most often depicted in Paleolithic caverns are the same as those that were hunted, even if their proportions do not exactly match those represented by the faunal remains found at habitation sites. At Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, dangerous animals, who did not figure on Paleolit...