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Essential Question: Should humans be held responsible for saving endangered animals?
Will do a project on Endangered Species. Students will work in groups of 2-3. Each group will research 1 endangered animal. They will also find out why the animal is endangered and suggest solutions to save it. They will create a PSA to save their animal.

Subtopics:
 * Why are they endangered?
 * Where do they live?
 * What do they eat?
 * What is their population?
 * How do they protect themselves?
 * What is their faimily life?
 * What can we do to help these animals?

Websites and Resources:
 * Especies Fact Sheets (By continent)
 * Endangered Species
 * American Museum of Natural History
 * Enchanted Learning
 * [|www.factmonster.com]

Class Samples of Endangered Species PowerPoint PSAs
 * media type="file" key="Gorillas.mov" width="243" height="243" media type="file" key="pandas_0001.mov" width="243" height="243"