Use a data chart or informational text to classify organisms as thriving, threatened, endangered, or extinct 0307.5.7

Links verified 10/8/2021

1. Bat Hibernation and Migration - information from the U S Fish and Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Program [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine]
2. Causes of Extinction - the Why Files has information about wolves and other animals in danger of extinction
3. Critically Endangered Species
4. Data Chart
   1. Interpreting Column Graphs - students practice by answering ten questions about the graph
   2. Interpreting Data - survey a small group by clicking on each of the children, turn the tally marks into two types of graphs and then go back and take a different survey
   3. Interpreting Data - multiple-choice quiz from Gencoe math [5 questions]
   4. Overview of a Bar Graph by Nicole Carroll
   5. Overview of a Line Graph by Nicole Carroll
   6. Piece Of Pie - display data using a circle graph
   7. Play Ball - collect data to put on a picture graph
5. Endangered Ecosystems - Investigate some of the animals in a Mexican ecosystem. Figure out who are the predators and who are the prey and build your own food web.
6. Graphic Organizers - (to classify organisms)
   1. Concept Maps Explained - Concept maps and story webs are visual ways to structure ideas. (sample included)
   2. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
   3. Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
   4. Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
   5. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
   6. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
   7. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
   8. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
   9. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
   10. Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
   11. Teaching Tips: Graphic Organizers - A list of links from eMINTS and The Curators of the University of Missouri
   12. Text 2 Mind Map - a web application that converts texts to mind maps - Enter a structured list of words or sentences and Text2Mind Map will interpret it and make a mind map out of them that you can print.
   13. Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn
   14. Venn Diagram, - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think 

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