Activities:
- Watching a video on the topic. Before you show the video to the students, review the vocabulary from Lesson #1. You may also provide them with the following list:
| endangered – בסכנת הכחדה | climate – אקלים | deforestation – לכרות יערות |
| survive – לשרוד | rainforests – יערות גשם | poachers – ציידים ללא רשות |
| nature – טבע | hunting – לצייד | protections – הגנה |
| food – מזון, אוכל | affect – משפיע | valuable – בעל ערך |
| habitat – סביבת מחייה | extinct – נכחד | |
| at risk – בסכנה | destroy – להרוס |
Watch the video together. It is important to give them at least a small task to do while watching. For this video you can ask them to write the animals they see.
Endangered Animal Species – Animals for Kids – Educational Video – YouTube
After watching it once, give the students the following activities to complete. A list of words they should use for the table is provided below. Then watch the video again and have the students complete any information they didn’t remember the first time.
- Complete the table. You may use the answers in the box below.
| Animal | Home | Description word/s | Why it’s endangered |
| Amur Leopards | Russia, China | beautiful and rare | less habitat |
| Black Rhino | |||
| Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans | |||
| poachers and deforestation | |||
| Pangolin | wrongly believed medical scales | ||
| Canada, USA, Russia, Greenland, Norway | |||
| beautiful coat | |||
| Giant Panda |
| Africa – Eastern Africa – Asia – Asia and South Africa – China – Himalaya
valuable horn – poachers – beautiful shell – hunting and pollution – global warming hunters and deforestation – seal eaters – their food is hard to find Hawksbill Sea Turtle – Mountain Gorilla – Polar Bears – Red Panda |
- What can we do to help the animals? Circle the correct answers:
save water use plastic bags save energy
ride your bike eat more fish and meat use buses
eat lots of vegetables buy food that grows in your country