Can Captive Breeding Save Species?
When studying endangered and threatened species and habitats, students should become familiar with programs that strive to preserve biodiversity, such as captive-breeding programs and species-survival plans adopted by zoos, aquariums, and other institutions. This lesson asks students to research and assess these programs.

Great Barrier Reef
This lesson will help students understand the environmental importance of coral reefs and the threats to reefs' conservation. Through the process of gathering geographic information about a place (in this case, the Great Barrier Reef), students will learn how a "geographic focus" can sharpen their insights about a conservation issue.

Human Impacts in the African Rain Forest: What Can We Do?
This lesson asks students to examine the human impacts that conservationist Michael Fay noticed on his Congo Trek, and Africa MegaFlyover projects as well as the areas that are so far free from human impacts. Students will write recommendations to the region's governments and businesses, explaining what should be done about human impacts and considering some of the underlying causes for environmental threats.

The Best Hope for Northern Right Whales
This lesson asks students to research current and proposed methods of assisting the recovery of northern right whale populations. Students will conduct Internet research to investigate the best strategies to help save right whales.

Turtle Island
Identify endangered organisms whose survival directly depends on wise water policies.

The Coming of Corn
Determine why many plants are becoming endangered or extinct.

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