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IRP Outcomes: Grade 5
Social Studies
Applications of Social Studies:
    Identify and clarify a problem, issue, or inquiry.
    Gather and record a body of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources.
    Develop alternative interpretations from varied sources.
    Defend a position on a regional issue in light of alternative perspectives.
    Use an outline to organize information into a coherent presentation.
Environment:
    Assess effects of lifestyles and industries on local and global environments.
Science
Life Science
    Describe the known and potential environmental impacts of using B.C.’s living resources.
    Devise a strategy for sustaining a living resource.
Language Arts
Communicate Ideas and Information (Composing and Creating)
    Identify and use sources of information, including people, print, audio-visual media, and electronic media.
    Select and shape information appropriately for specific audiences and purposes.
Communicate Ideas and Information (Knowledge of Language)
    Use a variety of sentences in their written work.
    Use correct capitalization and basic punctuation consistently.
    Use conventional spelling for most words.
Communicate Ideas and Information (Improving Communications)
    Appraise their own and others' work.
    Revise and edit their own and others' work for content and clarity.
    Edit to correct their own and others' use of grammar, spelling, and punctuation using both electronic and manual means.

More Fun Learning Activities:

Backyard Biodiversity and Beyond
Activity: Endangered Species and Spaces of British Columbia (pp. 4-7)
Objective: To introduce students to the species and spaces of British Columbia that are particularly threatened because of human activities.

Protected Areas: Preserving Our Future
Activity: Habitat Islands - A Spitball Send-off (p. 40)
Key Concepts:
    -Natural protected areas of critical habitat are increasingly becoming islands surrounded by a sea
        of human development.
    -Part of the process of protecting habitat in British Columbia involves identifying areas according
        to their climate, geology, plant and animal life, and having an understanding of ecology and
        island biogeography.
    -Protection is an ongoing and complicated process involving input from all those involved,
        but protection of natural areas should give significant consideration to environmental concerns.
Method: Students actively simulate the process of species dispersal to explore the theory of habitat islands, make predictions about island scenarios, record and analyze data, and create graphs.

Project WILD
Activity: Shrinking Habitat (p. 289)
Purpose: Students will be able to describe some effects of human development of land areas on plants and animals previously living in the area; evaluate the importance of suitable habitat for wildlife; and recognize that loss of habitat is generally considered to be the most critical problem facing wildlife today.
Method: Students simulate a process of land development in a physically involving activity.

Activity: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (p. 216)
Purpose: Students will be able to identify and describe some causes for extinction of animal species; define "threatened", "vulnerable", and "endangered" as applied to wildlife; and name threatened and endangered animals living in their area.
Method: Students become familiar with classification of animals, conduct research, and make a master list of threatened and endangered animals locally and/or nationally, including factors affecting the animals' condition.

Further Reading
The brochure Vancouver Island Marmot in the Wildlife in British Columbia at Risk series available from the Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks. (ENV 202291.393)
Source: Wild BC

Sources:
For this web quest I used a number of different graphics, and images. See below to view where I found the graphics and images.

Backgrounds: boggiejack
Cool graphics: coolgraphics.com
Pictures: Marmot standing, Fish, Marmot sleeping, Wolverine on log

Introduction Task Process Resources Evaluation Conclusion Teachers Page

Thank you for visiting my Web Quest. I hope that it may be useful in your classroom. I also hope that your students come away from this project with a better understanding of what they can do to help our environment.