Looking for a Halloween ecology project that you can do in a single day, use to decorate your classroom, and engage your students in meaningful dialogue about endangered species? This haunting lesson is perfect to do as a last minute holiday lesson and will get your students critically thinking about the future of our planet's diverse flora and fauna.

This quick and easy to implement mini-project comes with three black-line templates for your students to create their project as they research and learn about critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable species. Challenge your creative learners by allowing them to make their own template or take this lesson even further by expanding the lesson to include a life size version of their project.

Designed to be used during a single class period, students can quickly research animals on the endangered species list and create one of three head stone templates that can be cut-out and used to decorate your classroom for the the spooky holiday season. This lesson is a haunting reminder of the state of our planet and will foster deep conversation about what the future holds as students can visually observe just how many organisms are in danger of becoming extinct. Take this lesson to the next level - don't allow repeats from class to class to see just how staggering the number of endangered animals there truly are!

WHAT'S INCLUDED in this 1 DAY LESSON:

• NON-EDITABLE PDF handouts

→ Background information and instructions

→ Three black-line headstone templates

→ Teacher/Student example

→ Student checklist/rubric with assigned points

STUDENTS WILL:

• Learn about what qualifies an organism to be listed as endangered

• Research and organism of their choosing that is listed as critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable

• Design a headstone for a critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable species

• Color and cut out completed headstone

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