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Integrate lessons about the
Elephant Sanctuary elephants
into different curriculum areas. Visit our pages:
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• habitats, endangered species
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| Civics |
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• civics: fundraising, letter writing and geography
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• read a lighthouse grant based on the Elephant Sanctuary curriculum
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| Rubric |
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• rubric used to evaluate resource links
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- There are many
math facts about the elephants on the Elephant
Sanctuary website.
- Students can gather data from each of the Elephant biographies. We facilitated their learning by creating math fact cards that students used as they wrote their own biographies. First and second graders built their own sentences using their math fact cards.
- Third and fourth graders used math facts for graphing on spreadsheets and creating bar charts and pie charts.
- Math facts are
also available from the Help
Feed the Elephants page, which lists the diet for each of the seven elephants
currently at the sanctuary. For example, students can compare and contrast
how much hay each elephant eats with their heigh and weight.
- When we were
working on the unit, we would email the Director, Carol Buckley, who would almost immediately email back answers to our questions.
- Thus, children
are learning about math in truly a real world application.
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