ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES GRADE 7 Activity #1: Nature Sites Then and Now Use the field trip site catalogue in the resource Encore (provided to all BC schools by the Ministry of the Environment). This guide is divided into seven regions and each region lists nature sites according to school districts. Locate the sites which were identified within your school district in 1975. What has happened to these nature sites? Are these protected or endangered spaces? Activity #2: Wildlife Hearing Role play a community hearing and involve students in a decision-making process which corresponds to a real life situation. The students are presented with a dilemma which involves a community and proposed road construction -- construction that will cut through a wetland. This wetland is used for migratory waterfowl, including an endangered species, bird hunting and fish spawning. Meeting participants include the highway engineer, a local merchant, city councillor, Chamber of Commerce representative, naturalist, hunter and fisher, landowner, trapper, biologist and developer. For more details check out the book by Ivany and Carlton, Conservation. Activity #3: Network Network with other classes who are studying endangered species and spaces -- they would probably appreciate receiving a copy of your electronic encyclopedia. Contact them using electronic mail (e-mail). An Operation Lifeline contact person with the World Wildlife Fund Canada will put you in touch. (Operation Lifeline, World Wildlife Fund Canada, 90 Eglinton Avenue E., Toronto, ON M4P 2Z7) Activity #4: Keep informed. Go International! Contact the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) to see what is being done internationally to save specific species. Write IUCN at the World Wildlife Fund. Activity #5: Adopt a species Raise money to help with the preservation of wildlife. Donations to help endangered Canadian wildlife can be sent to: Kamloops Wildlife Park, PO Box 698, Kamloops, BC V2C 5L7, (Bill Gilmore, Educational Coordinator and Director). Telephone # (604) 573-3215. Operation Grassland Community, Box 1644, Brooks, AB (David Scobie, Education Officer, e-mail dscobie@eid.awinc.com). Telephone # (403) 362-1400. South Okanagan Rehab Centre for Owls Box 1166, Oliver, BC V0H 1T0 (Sherri Klein). Telephone: (604) 498-4251. These institutions raise injured owls and release them back into the wild. For a small donation you can "adopt" a burrowing owl and help pay for its care. Activity #6: Endangered Communities? Draw a three part mural of your community: Past / Present / Future. Feature wildlife (plants and animals) and illustrate what has changed from the past and what you think will happen if wildlife is not protected. Will it disappear? Will it adapt? How will people adapt to the changes? Activity #7: Contact the media Invite the media to your school when you are researching this unit. They may be interested in your displays, models and electronic encyclopedia. Show your presentations to the newspapers or radio stations and see if they would let your class to contribute information for use during National Wildlife Week or Education Week. Activity #8: Workers for Wildlife Let the people at the World Wildlife Fund know what you're doing about endangered species in your community. Tell them your Action Plans! Join Workers for Wildlife, World Wildlife Fund, 90 Eglinton Avenue E., Suite 504, Toronto, ON M4P 2Z7. Activity #9: What's Out There? For the duration of your unit keep track of how often you see, or hear about, endangered species or endangered spaces in the media. Clip all newspaper and magazine articles; note tv and radio programs. Graph your information. Who is most concerned? Activities #10 to #210: Operation Lifeline Join Operation Lifeline and get a binder of wonderful activities. These will keep you interested, and active, in all aspects of endangered species and spaces. Image Credit: sketch of Mormon's Metalmark by Hannah Nadel in Rare Invertebrates of the South Okanagan brochure, Ministry of Environment, 1995. this section sponsored by: Industry Canada