Ridge to Reef
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Quick Descrition:
The Ridge to Reef project was out first major project in this class, spanning through the fall of 2014. As an overview, we worked with the San Diego Zoo and researched native and endangered animals along the ridge to reef in California and Baja California. We focused on four major animals that are in danger of becoming extinct: the California Condor, Peninsular Pronghorn, the Peninsular Bighorn Sheep, and (the animal I completed the project about) the Vaquita Porpoise. We made lessons and gave them to the High Tech Elementary North County 4th grade class. If you are interested in re-creating this project or just interested, the description of the entire project is on my teacher's DP at steamprojectleaders.com. In conclusion to this project, we went to the Safari Park in San Diego, displayed by the pictures to the left. |
Reflection:
This project was immensely important for both 11th and 4th graders in the High Tech North County community. We learned about other lives, not just our own, and how we were affecting them. My group and I focused on the Vaquita Porpoise, but we were taught by our fellow classmates all about the other endangered animals as well. If students are not taught about these important topics, we can and will lose more animals to extinction. The reason why these animals are endangered is because of human impact. Building fences on the animals land, catching a porpoise in a net, condors dying from landing on electric wires, are all reasons why these animals are dying off. In order to change our ways, we have to learn about it. We taught these kids because we are the next generation. If we are going to fix these problems, or even attempt to, we need people to know about it. The Vaquita Porpoise could die off this year. We can potentially loose other animals because of that. We need to protect our earth. The importance of our work was to educate and aware people of these problems. If we told more people, we could raise money to give to Mexico, fishermen, and scientists to figure out how to save the vaquita.
I really enjoyed this project because I felt like we were doing important research and work. We got to learn all about this endangered animal and learn potential ways to save them. We got to teach those around us that these animals are worth saving. We created lessons and taught them to elementary students and high school students. After we presented the lessons, we sent those lessons to the San Diego Zoo. The Zoo was able to use these lessons to educate even more students, and also work with Mexico and their students as well. The impact that we made was that we sent letters to officials in Mexico so that they knew that other people knew about it, and were fighting for the vaquita as well. It connects California to efforts in Baja and the gulf. I loved this project because we got to learn something important. Vital. It is so important to save our world and ecosystems. We did the damage, so now we need to clean it up.
I didn't know about the Vaquita Porpoise before. Did you?
If you want to know more general information about the Vaquita Porpoise and how you can make a difference, look at the presentation below.
This project was immensely important for both 11th and 4th graders in the High Tech North County community. We learned about other lives, not just our own, and how we were affecting them. My group and I focused on the Vaquita Porpoise, but we were taught by our fellow classmates all about the other endangered animals as well. If students are not taught about these important topics, we can and will lose more animals to extinction. The reason why these animals are endangered is because of human impact. Building fences on the animals land, catching a porpoise in a net, condors dying from landing on electric wires, are all reasons why these animals are dying off. In order to change our ways, we have to learn about it. We taught these kids because we are the next generation. If we are going to fix these problems, or even attempt to, we need people to know about it. The Vaquita Porpoise could die off this year. We can potentially loose other animals because of that. We need to protect our earth. The importance of our work was to educate and aware people of these problems. If we told more people, we could raise money to give to Mexico, fishermen, and scientists to figure out how to save the vaquita.
I really enjoyed this project because I felt like we were doing important research and work. We got to learn all about this endangered animal and learn potential ways to save them. We got to teach those around us that these animals are worth saving. We created lessons and taught them to elementary students and high school students. After we presented the lessons, we sent those lessons to the San Diego Zoo. The Zoo was able to use these lessons to educate even more students, and also work with Mexico and their students as well. The impact that we made was that we sent letters to officials in Mexico so that they knew that other people knew about it, and were fighting for the vaquita as well. It connects California to efforts in Baja and the gulf. I loved this project because we got to learn something important. Vital. It is so important to save our world and ecosystems. We did the damage, so now we need to clean it up.
I didn't know about the Vaquita Porpoise before. Did you?
If you want to know more general information about the Vaquita Porpoise and how you can make a difference, look at the presentation below.
Below is our activity for our lesson. We gave this out after the presentation for them to learn about by-catch and conservation efforts in a creative way.
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Below is our quiz for our lesson. We used it to test the 4th graders on their new knowledge of the vaquita. This quiz was given after the presentation and activity.
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If you are interested, want to create something similar, or use our documents, you can download the docs underneath.
yayvaquitafun.pdf | |
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vaquitaactivity.pdf | |
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vaquitaquiz-2.pdf | |
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letteractivity.pdf | |
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