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Summary

The “Save the Elephants” zine helps students explore the following questions: 
  • What makes elephants special and how do they use their senses of sound (sound waves) and sight (processing light) to communicate? 
  • Why are elephants endangered? 
  • Who is helping and how can we help?

Connections to Other Resources

This zine is the primary text in our Save the Elephants Project.

Overview

Life Habit Focus: Empathy

Subject: ELA, life science, physical science

Grade: 3-5

Aligned Standards

Common Core Reading (CCSS):

  • Informational/NonFiction Standards R.I 1-10 for grades 3-5.

NGSS Standards:

  • 3-LS2-1: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive
  • 3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
  • 4-PS4-1: Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.
  • 3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
  • 5-ESS3-1: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

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