What you can do!
Using your knowledge and understanding of endangered animals, it is now up to you to educate your community. You have the power to make a difference in your world.
Endangered Species Awareness Poster
From all the information you have gathered about endangered animals and their habitats, we want YOU to instruct the school community (students, teachers, parents and other members of the school) on how they can help protect these endangered animals. Your task is to create a poster that will be displayed around the school. Remember that Fishbone Organiser from earlier on? Now is the chance to use those ideas that you thought of to help endangered species.
Your poster can focus specifically on your endangered animal from your open-mind portrait OR a habitat you have researched or come across these last few weeks that you feel passionate about conserving.
Your teacher will be assessing your poster, making sure it fits a certain criteria. This is what your teacher will be looking out for:
*If you would like to see the rubric and know exactly what you are being marked on, go over to the assessments page and click 'Endangered Species Awareness Poster Rubric'*
Your poster can focus specifically on your endangered animal from your open-mind portrait OR a habitat you have researched or come across these last few weeks that you feel passionate about conserving.
Your teacher will be assessing your poster, making sure it fits a certain criteria. This is what your teacher will be looking out for:
- That readers are able to identify your chosen animal and/or a habitat. It includes 1 or more pictures of your chosen topic.
- If you have chosen a specific animal, there is a fact on how and why this animal is endangered. If you have chosen a habitat, there is a fact stating what is happening to your habitat.
- 1-2 small solutions that the community can do to help protect this animal or habitat.
- Can the community gain awareness from your poster?
- Is the poster appealing? Does it have too much/too little information? Is it readable?
- Relevant information on the poster
- Efficient time management, not spending too much time decorating or using the computers for non-work related activities.
- Area on poster where readers can refer to and find more information on animal/habitat. E.g. website, campaign etc.
- Your spelling, punctuation and grammar.
*If you would like to see the rubric and know exactly what you are being marked on, go over to the assessments page and click 'Endangered Species Awareness Poster Rubric'*
Here are some examples of awareness/conservation posters that other people have made. You don't have to copy and follow these posters, they are an example. Be original and creative!
Now is also a good time to use the Inquiry Planner to help plan your poster, just like how you planned your Open-Mind Portrait. Download Inquiry Planner HERE. If you feel you have researched plenty of information from the portrait activity and there is nothing new you wish to find out and you know what you are going to do then you have the option of not doing the planner BUT if you are researching something new about your animal, use the planner!
When your poster is finished and displayed somewhere in your school click CONCLUSION down below.