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What does being endangered mean?

Does it matter if animals are endangered?

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Quick-Fire Questions

  1. What does it mean if an animal is endangered?
  2. In what ways are humans responsible for endangering animals?
  3. Why must we protect endangered animals?
  4. What can humans do to help endangered animals?

Key Words -
Can you use them in a sentence?

Endangered: a species that is seriously at rish of exinction.

Species: the kind or sort of living things, such as animals

Be The Teacher -
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Write now itis through that between 200 and 2,000 new extinctions occur evry single year which means that many animals are at serious risk

Stretch Yourself...

Imagine you are an endangered animal. Which one would you choose? Write a paragraph explaining the fear you feel because of being endangered.

Go Create...

Choose one endangered animal and recreate it using natural materials. Try and give it an expression to add emotion to your work.

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