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To access the Earth Trends data, go to the Earth Trends Web site; place the cursor over Biodiversity and Protected Areas in the navigation bar at the top of the page; click Data Tables and highlight Globally Threatened Species: Amphibians, Freshwater Fish, and Plants; and hit Select Data Table. Here you will be asked to submit a brief registration form before the PDF files are displayed. (You will need Acrobat Reader.) Print the first two pages of table data. Then highlight Globally Threatened Species: Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles and click Select Data Table, and print the first two pages of table data.
Lesson Plan
Earth Trends collects data about a wide range of environmental issues. Explain to students that in this lesson, they will use the organization's detailed data relating to Earth's threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and plants to complete the Our Threatened Biodiversity work sheet.Hand out copies of the work sheet and the four pages of statistics from Earth Trends.
Extension activities:
Assessment
Students will correctly answer at least seven of eight questions on the Our Threatened Biodiversity work sheet.
Answer Key: 1. 24 species 2. Australia 3. 142 species 4. plants 5. mammals 6. Brazil 7. Indonesia 8. South Africa
Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
National Standards
MATHEMATICS: Number and Operations
GRADES 9 - 12
Originally published 04/05/2002
MATHEMATICS: Data Analysis and Probability
NM-NUM.3-5.1 Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships Among Numbers, and Number Systems
NM-NUM.3-5.3 Compute Fluently and Make Reasonable Estimates
NM-NUM.6-8.1 Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships Among Numbers, and Number Systems
NM-NUM.6-8.3 Compute Fluently and Make Reasonable Estimates
NM-NUM.9-12.1 Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships Among Numbers, and Number Systems
NM-NUM.9-12.3 Compute Fluently and Make Reasonable Estimates
MATHEMATICS: Connections
NM-DATA.3-5.2 Select and Use Appropriate Statistical Methods to Analyze Data
NM-DATA.6-8.2 Select and Use Appropriate Statistical Methods to Analyze Data
NM-DATA.9-12.2 Select and Use Appropriate Statistical Methods to Analyze Data
SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Geography
NS.5-8.3 Life Science
NS.5-8.4 Earth and Space Science
NS.5-8.6 Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
NS.9-12.3 Life Science
NS.9-12.4 Earth and Space Science
NS.9-12.6 Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
TECHNOLOGY
See more resources at our special Earth Day page.
NSS-G.K-12.1 The World in Spatial Terms
NSS-G.K-12.2 Places and Regions
NSS-G.K-12.5 Environment and Society
NSS-G.K-12.6 Uses of Geography
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