Fighting Extinction - Exploring Zoos and Conservation

In this lesson, students investigate the role of conservation in zoos. They begin by exploring why we need to conserve living things and investigate conservation programs as having three key parts: 1. Breeding and release, 2. Reducing threats in the wild, and 3. Education and action. Students look at the Eastern Barred Bandicoot as a successful local conservation program and the Rhino Fund Uganda (RFU) as a successful international conservation program. Students then research an Australian animal involved in a conservation program and create a scientific poster based on their research.

Students will...