Nature » Teacher’s Guides http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature The premier natural history series Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Loneliest Animals: Teacher’s Guide http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/teachers-guides/the-loneliest-animals/teachers-guide/4960/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/teachers-guides/the-loneliest-animals/teachers-guide/4960/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:07:30 +0000 tanner vea http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/?p=4960

The loneliest animals are the last of their kind on the planet. Concerned scientists have collected members of various endangered species, and have launched captive breeding programs, with the hope of returning new offspring to the wild. This program celebrates the persistence and resourcefulness of scientists who strive to bring rare species back from the brink of extinction.

This guide helps students focus on endangered animals that are facing the possibility of extinction, and explore the ways people are trying to protect them. This guide includes teacher’s pages and student activity masters that can be used with the program.

The Teacher’s Guide supplement includes an additional activity, designed to show that habitat destruction can contribute to species extinction.

Please photocopy the pages and hand them out to students in class.

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This Teacher’s Guide accompanies the NATURE miniseries, Dogs That Changed the World. The series explores the 15,000-year-old relationship between dogs and humans and the evolution of wolves into the wide variety of dogs we know today. Dogs That Changed the World will help you and your class understand how these animals have helped shape the world we live in. Lessons in the guide use the programs as a starting point for discussions about the domestication of dogs, breeding dogs for specific traits, and the unique ways in which humans and dogs work and live together. This guide includes teacher’s pages and student activity masters that can be used with any or all of the programs. Please photocopy the pages and hand them out to students in class.

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To download the Teacher’s Guides as PDFs, you must first download the Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free on Adobe’s Web site. The Reader is available for most computer platforms, and once downloaded the Guide may be viewed onscreen as well as printed out.

Steps:

  1. Download Adobe’s Acrobat Reader from Adobe’s Web site and follow the instructions to install it.
  2. Download the Teacher’s Guide.
  3. Open the Teacher’s Guide. If Adobe Acrobat is installed correctly, the guide will open automatically in most browsers. If the guide doesn’t open automatically, save the file to your desktop or to a particular folder, then open it manually.

Please note: These Teacher’s Guides are also available in print. If you are interested in obtaining printed copies, please write to:

Robert A. Miller, Educational Publishing
Thirteen/WNET New York
450 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 1000

]]> http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/lessons/dogs-that-changed-the-world/teachers-guide/1275/feed/ 1 Crash: A Tale of Two Species: Teacher’s Guide http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/teachers-guides/crash-a-tale-of-two-species/teachers-guide/502/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/teachers-guides/crash-a-tale-of-two-species/teachers-guide/502/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:20:34 +0000 admin http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/?p=502 Introduction

This Teacher’s Guide accompanies the NATURE program Crash: A Tale of Two Species. The program looks at the interconnection between two very different animals — the horseshoe crab and the red knot — and the threats to their survival.

Lessons in the guide use the programs as a starting point for discussions and activities that focus on adaptations that help these animals survive, the ways that human activity can endanger different species, and the varieties of wildlife in your own community. This guide includes teacher’s pages and student activity masters that can be used with the program. Please photocopy the pages and hand them out to students in class.

ยป Download this guide

Download Instructions:

To download the Teacher’s Guides as PDFs, you must first download the Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free on Adobe’s Web site. The Reader is available for most computer platforms, and once downloaded the Guide may be viewed onscreen as well as printed out.

Steps:

  1. Download Adobe’s Acrobat Reader from Adobe’s Web site and follow the instructions to install it.
  2. Download the Teacher’s Guide.
  3. Open the Teacher’s Guide. If Adobe Acrobat is installed correctly, the guide will open automatically in most browsers. If the guide doesn’t open automatically, save the file to your desktop or to a particular folder, then open it manually.

Please note: This and other Teacher’s Guides are also available in print. If you are interested in obtaining printed copies, please write to:

Educational Publishing
Thirteen/WNET New York
450 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001

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