Animal Safari

This web quests helps students understand about
animal safari. They also learn the importance facts on animal safari. Students
learn how technology can be used to do research and expand their knowledge of a
certain topic. This project has students working cooperatively in groups. It
helps them demonstrate their ability to work together in teams, they learn to
interact and voice their opinions, and they learn the importance of being
responsible of their assigned tasks. 

Standards

Science:

(10) Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to:

(A) explore how structures and functions of plants and animals allow them to survive in a particular environment;

(B) explore that some characteristics of organisms are inherited such as the number of limbs on an animal or flower color and recognize that some behaviors are learned in response to living in a certain environment such as animals using tools to get food; and

(C) investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changes in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady bugs.

Reading & Writing:

(25) Research/Research Plan. Students ask open-ended research questions and develop a plan for answering them. Students are expected to:

(A) generate research topics from personal interests or by brainstorming with others, narrow to one topic, and formulate open-ended questions about the major research topic; and

(B) generate a research plan for gathering relevant information (e.g., surveys, interviews, encyclopedias) about the major research question.

Credits

http://www.ducksters.com/animals/elephant.php
http://www.earthskids.com/ek-elephants.aspx
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/african-elephant/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4Ml8vxW8E
http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/13-categories/animals/34-giraffe.html
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/giraffe/
http://kids.sandiegozoo.org/animals/mammals/giraffe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFwrkVP-E2M
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/zebra/
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/zebra/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXMg1Da2-Yw
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/cheetah/
http://www.cheetahkids.com/cheetahfastfacts.html
http://www.defenders.org/cheetah/basic-facts
http://www.fupa.com/play/Puzzles-free-games/Safari-Animals-Search.html