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UNIT 15
ENDANGERED SPECIES

What does
‘endangered’
mean?

Why are
animals
important to
humankind?

Can you name

some animals
which are
endangered?

Whose
responsibility
is it to protect
these innocent
creatures?

What are
some measures
that can ensure
the survival of
these animals?

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TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR BEGINNER LEVEL

BY THE END OF i. Read and understand descriptions about endangered species.

THE LESSON, ii. Answer WH-questions.
STUDENTS CAN: iii. Give opinions on endangered species.

Reading Strategy: 5W1H

STRATEGIES/ LOTS: Understanding
APPROACHES HOTS: Analysing
21st Century Learning

VALUES Love for the Environment

LEARNING/ Pictures
TEACHING AIDS Worksheet
SITUATION Educational
TEXT FORMAT Continuous
TEXT TYPE Description
COGNITIVE Scan and locate
PROCESS Represent literal and gist meaning
*refer to HEBAT Bacaan Bahasa Inggeris Reading Strategies
**refer to 21st Century Learning: Cooperative Learning Structures
***refer to Guide to Using HOTS in a Reading Classroom

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ACTIVITIES STRATEGIES/
APPROACHES

STEP 1

a. Students are shown pictures of some LOTS:

endangered animals (PICTURE 1). Understanding

b. In groups, students discuss the endangered i-THINK:

animals in PICTURE 1 and fill in the Circle Circle Map
Map*** (WORKSHEET 1).

c. Complete the task in the handout Reading Strategy:

(WORKSHEET 2). Skim and Scan

STEP 2

a. Students read a passage on the causes for HOTS:

the disappearance of endangered animals Analysing
(TEXT 1).

b. Students construct 'Wh-' questions based on Reading Strategy:

the headings in the text (TEXT 1), and write 5W1H
these questions in the 5W1H Chart*
(WORKSHEET 3).

c. In a Think – Pair – Share** activity, students 21st Century Learning:

refer the text (TEXT 1) to find the answer to Think – Pair – Share
their questions and complete the chart
(WORKSHEET 3).

STEP 3

a. Based on Text 1, students complete the LOTS:

graphic organiser (WORKSHEET 4). Understanding

b. Students present and justify their answers. 21st Century Learning:

(Suggested activities : Gallery Walk, One Stay Gallery Walk
Three Stray) One Stay Three Stray

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PICTURE 1

Instruction: These are some of the critically endangered species. Share what
you know about the animals with your friends.

www.worldwildlife.org

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WORKSHEET 1

ENDANGERED
SPECIES IN
MALAYSIA

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TEXT 1

WORKSHEET 2

Instruction: Based on the information given, write the number of animals

under each picture. Then, write the order from
DISAPPEARING the lowest to the highest in the
ACTS
boxes provided. Rank them from 1-9.
At the moment, the world is losing one species of wildlife almost every day. The two main
causes of this decline are the destruction of their habitat and over-population by human beings.

Every minute of the day, 20 hectares of tropical rainforest are cut down or burned. Hundreds
of wild species – insects and plants – are lost as a result. If it goes on, rainforests could disappear in
50 years’ time. They are vital in keeping the Earth’s climate and environment stable. If they are
destroyed, mankind will suffer as well as wildlife.

As cities grow and industry develops around them, pollution becomes another problem for
wildlife. Friends of Earth believe that two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in urban areas
by the year 2025.

Something must be done!

In theory, most countries agree that there should be no trade in endangered species. Ninety-
five countries have signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild life
and Fauna and Flora. The Conventions aims to forbid trade in endangered species and to limit trade
in any species whose population is declining fast.

However, in reality trade in endangered species is still big business. People can buy fur coats
made from the fur of jaguars, snow leopards and other cats facing extinction.

Source: http://www.ganino.com/games/Busy%20Teacher/PDF/the-environment-endangered-species-fauna.pdf

http://www.ganino.com/games/Busy%20Teacher/PDF/the-environment-endangered-
species-fauna.pdf

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WORKSHEET 2

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WORKSHEET 3

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WORKSHEET 4

Instruction: Fill in the graphic organiser below.

Main causes of extinction:

A.____________________
______________________
C. In 60 seconds
B. Over-population by
______________________
human. ______________________
______________________
D. Rainforests are ______________________
important for ________
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________
_____________________

Declining Numbers
Endangered
species which Of
are still in trade
Endangered Species E. ___________
G._____________
Countries
H._____________
joined the
I. _____________ Convention on
International
Trade in
Endangered
Species of Wild
life and Fauna
F. Objective of the convention and Flora.
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
_______________

J. How can I help to save the endangered species?

_____________________________________________ ora
_____________________________________________
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TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

BY THE END
OF THE i. Identify relevant details from the text about endangered species.
LESSON, ii.Create a poster about endangered species.
STUDENTS
CAN:
Reading Strategy: Skim and Scan
HOTS: Analysing
STRATEGIES/
Creating
APPROACHES
21st Century Learning
i-THINK

VALUES Love for the Environment

LEARNING/ Flash Card
TEACHING
Worksheet
AIDS
SITUATION Public
TEXT FORMAT Multiple, Non Continuous
TEXT TYPE Description
COGNITIVE Scan and locate
PROCESS Represent literal and gist meaning

*refer to HEBAT Bacaan Bahasa Inggeris Reading Strategies

**refer to 21st Century Learning: Cooperative Learning Structures
***refer to Guide to Using HOTS in a Reading Classroom

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ACTIVITIES STRATEGIES/
APPROACHES

STEP 1

(i) Students identify and discuss various i-THINK:

types of endangered species using a Circle Map
Circle Map***(WORKSHEET 1).
21st Century Learning:
(ii) Students share the findings in a Wall Wall Word
Word** activity.

STEP 2

a. Students read information about endangered HOTS:

species in flash cards (TEXT 1 – TEXT 3). Analysing

b. Students discuss and list possible factors

that threaten the lives of endangered species Reading Strategy:
(WORKSHEET 2). Skim and Scan

STEP 3

a. In groups, students identify an animal they

want to protect.

b. Using information from the text, students HOTS:

design a poster on how to save the animal Creating
(PICTURE 1).

c. Students present their posters. 21st Century Learning:

(Suggested activities: Gallery Walk**, One Gallery Walk
Strays Three Stay**) One StraysThree Stay

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WORKSHEET 1

ENDANGERED SPECIES

TEXT 1

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Instruction: These are some of the critically endangered species. Read the
description below each picture.

Picture 1: The Black Rhino

o Oldest group of mammal

o An important source of income from ecotourism
o Requires large block of land to live
o Habitat loss, illegal poaching and hunting, illegal trading – to extinction
o Steps to save the rhino – provide better protection, relocate to wider
space for habitat, take strict action against hunters and poachers,
contribution from the public

www.worldwildlife.org

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TEXT 2

Picture 2: The Sea Turtle

o Important link in marine ecosystems

o Help maintain health of sea grass beds and coral reefs
o Existed for the last 100 million years
o Under threat – accidentally caught in fish nets and drown, caught for the
meat and eggs as source of food and income, used as medicine and
religious ceremony
o Steps to protect the turtles – switch to a more turtle-friendly fishing
hooks, develop a different source of income, implement programmes to
save the turtles

www.worldwildlife.org

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TEXT 3

Picture 3: The Gorilla

o Largest of the great apes

o Share 98.3% of their genetic codes with humans
o Only 17% of the gorilla population lives in protected regions
o Becoming endangered – logging for timber trade, mining, oil and gas
industries, felling of trees to make way for agricultural fields and
livestock, as source of food and trade
o Ways to protect the gorilla –monitoring wildlife trade, raise awareness
not to choose gorilla as source of food and income, ecotourism as a
way to safeguard the gorillas and their habitat

www.worldwildlife.org

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 Instruction: After reading the information about the endangered species, can
you spot the similarities of factors that threaten their lives? List the factors in
the diagram below. WORKSHEET 2
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FACTORS THAT THREATEN ENDANGERED SPECIES

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PICTURE 1

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TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR ADVANCED LEVEL

i. Brainstorm ideas about endangered species in the world.

BY THE END OF
ii. Give opinions on factors that threaten endangered species.
THE LESSON,
iii. Give opinions on the benefits and drawbacks of keeping
STUDENTS CAN:
endangered species in zoos.

Reading Strategy: KWLH

LOTS: Understanding
STRATEGIES/
HOTS: Analysing
APPROACHES
Evaluating
st
21 Century Learning

VALUES Love for the Environment

LEARNING/ Worksheet
TEACHING AIDS
SITUATION Public
TEXT FORMAT Multiple, mixed
TEXT TYPE Exposition
COGNITIVE Search and select relevant text
PROCESS Integrate and generate inferences
Corroborate, identify and handle conflict
*refer to HEBAT Bacaan Bahasa Inggeris Reading Strategies
**refer to 21st Century Learning: Cooperative Learning Structures
***refer to Guide to Using HOTS in a Reading Classroom

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ACTIVITIES STRATEGIES/
APPROACHES

STEP 1
a. Students discuss: LOTS:
(i) meaning of endangered species; Understanding
(ii) the threats faced by the endangered
species.

b. Fill in the ‘Know’ and ‘Want to Know’ sections Reading Strategy:

in the KWLH* chart (WORKSHEET 1). KWLH

STEP 2
a. Students read various texts about HOTS:
endangered species from the website (TEXT 1 Analysing
and 2).

b. Fill in the ‘What I Learn’ section in the KWLH*

chart (WORKSHEET 1). Reading Strategy:
KWLH
c. Students answer the reading comprehension 5W1H
questions in WORKSHEET 2.

d. Students justify their answers.

STEP 3
a. In groups, students discuss the benefits and HOTS:
drawbacks of keeping endangered species in Evaluating
zoos (WORKSHEET 3).

b. By conducting Hot Seat**, students share 21st Century Learning:

opinions about keeping endangered species Hot Seat
in zoos.

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WORKSHEET 1

Instruction: Fill in the KWLH chart as you explore more about endangered species

What I know What I want to What I have How we can learn

know learned more

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TEXT 1

A gorilla was fatally shot at an Ohio zoo this

weekend after it picked up a young boy who
had tumbled into an exhibit, officials said.

The encounter at the Cincinnati Zoo

and Botanical Garden occurred Saturday
afternoon when the boy crawled through a
barrier and fell into a moat at the
facility’s outdoor gorilla center, zoo director
Thane Maynard told reporters.

The boy wasn’t seriously hurt in the fall, Maynard said at a news
conference, but after he dropped into the enclosure, the gorilla, a
17-year-old male named Harambe, “went down and got him.” The
animal grabbed and dragged the child, Maynard said, and that’s
why officials determined that the boy’s life was in danger.
“It seemed very much by our professional team, our dangerous-
animal response team, to be a life-threatening situation,” Maynard
said. “And so the choice was made to put down, or shoot,
Harambe. And so he’s gone.”
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The boy was taken to a children’s hospital, according to a news
release from the zoo. His name was not released. A family
spokeswoman said in an email that he was 3 years old.
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“It’s a sad day all the way around,” Maynard said. “The right choice was made; it was
a difficult choice. We have protocols and procedures, we do drills with our dangerous-
animal response team. But we’ve never had a situation like this at the Cincinnati Zoo,
where a dangerous animal needed to be dispatched in an emergency situation.”

Zoo employees opted to put down the animal instead of using tranquilizers because in
“agitated” situations, it can take time for the drugs to take effect, Maynard said. Harambe
also would have had a “dramatic response” to a tranquilizer’s effect, he said.

Maynard praised the workers tasked with handling the incident, saying they had a “tough
choice.”

“Because they saved that little boy’s life,” he said. “It could have been very bad.”

The outdoor gorilla center has been part of the zoo for more than 30 years, Maynard said
at the news conference. The child apparently went under a railing and through wires to
get to the moat wall and then fell into the water. The gorilla had the child for about 10
minutes before it was fatally shot, he said.

“The child wasn’t under attack, but all sorts of things could happen in a situation like
that,” Maynard said. “So he certainly was at risk.”

The zoo’s gorilla exhibit would remain closed “until further notice,” the news release
stated.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Harambe was a western lowland gorilla, a species
that is considered to be critically endangered, according to the the World Wildlife
Fund. They can reach 4 to 5½ feet in height and weigh more than 400 pounds, the
WWF notes on its website.

Harambe was born at a zoo in Texas, according to Maynard. Two female gorillas were
also in the area when the incident occurred, but they were “recalled immediately,” the
news release stated.

“Harambe was a good guy. He was a youngster, just starting to grow up,” Maynard said.
“And there were hopes to breed him. He was not quite of breeding maturity yet. But it’ll
be a loss to the gene pool of lowland gorillas.”

Brittany Nicely, a zoo visitor who was at the exhibit when the boy fell, described a
frantic, fast-moving scene in an interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer, saying:
“Everybody started screaming and going crazy.”

The newspaper reported:

Nicely said the gorilla rushed toward the boy and led him by the arm through the water in
the enclosure. She said initially the gorilla seemed protective and only alarmed by all the
screaming.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/05/29/it-could-have-been-
very-bad-gorilla-killed-after-boy-falls-into-cincinnati-zoo-
exhibit/?utm_term=.ec9d9608a2c1

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TEXT 2

FACT 1: Good Zoos help fight wildlife extinction

FACT 2: Good zoos educate visitors

FACT 3: Good zoos attract good people

FACT 4: Four of Australia’s leading zoos are not-for-profit

FACT 5: Good zoos constantly strive for better and better animal welfare

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WORKSHEET 2

1. “FACT 1: Good Zoos help fight wildlife extinction”

The fact shows that zoos help fight wildlife extinction. However, why did the zoo
employees kill the gorilla?

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

2. “…The child wasn’t under attack, but all sorts of things could happen in a situation
like that,” Maynard said. “So he certainly was at risk.” ”

The phrase all sorts of things is referring to…

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

3. If you are one of the zoo employees, would you shoot the gorilla? Why?

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

4. In your opinion, how can zoo educate the people about extinction of endangered
species?

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

5. What are public responsibilities to help saving the endangered species?

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

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WORKSHEET 3
Instruction:
What do you think about the lives of endangered species in zoos? Is it beneficial for
the animals? Based on the information that you get from various sources, identify the
benefits and the drawbacks of endangered species to be kept in zoos.

The benefits and the drawbacks

of endangered species to be kept
in zoos.

Benefits Drawbacks

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ASSESSMENT /PROJECT

Throughout the lessons, students have explored the challenges faced by endangered
species to survive in this world. Not only can students learn about the challenges, it also
creates awareness among students about the importance of conserving flora and fauna and
that every life is important.

ACTIVITIES STRATEGIES/
APPROACHES

STEP 1
a. Recall the challenges faced by endangered
species to survive.

b. Explain to students that they are to come up LOTS:

with a project called “The Kingdom of Animals Remembering,
Parliament”. Understanding

*Teachers are free to modify the instruction HOTS: Evaluating,

according to their own classroom situation.

c. The students are given a situation. Students

imagine that they are representatives in
parliament fighting for an animal of their choice
to populate a new habitat project

STEP 2
a. Have students consider these questions in the
preparation stage of the project: HOTS:
 What can the animal contribute to others? Analysing
 Why should the animal be saved compared Evaluating
to other animals?
 Which animals should be in the habitat
together with the animal you represent? i-THINK:
 Would there be conflicts among the animals Circle Map
in the habitat?
 If there are problems, how should they
solve/handle those problems?
* Encourage students to also consider why
some animals should/should not be in
the habitat.

b. Students conduct a mini debate.

STEP 3
a. Students vote on which animals should be HOTS:
selected based on the debate and justify their Analysing
decisions. Evaluating

* Everyone is welcome to give their comments and

opinions.

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