Service Learning Unit on Conservation and Snow Leopards

Facing the Future, in collaboration with the Snow Leopard Trust, has just released Engaging Students in Conservation: Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard, an interdisciplinary 1-2 week unit that includes five dynamic lessons and culminates with a service learning project. The unit is designed for 5-8th grade students in science and social studies. Though the lessons are designed as a comprehensive unit, each lesson can stand alone. 

This unit, valued at $14.95, is available for FREE download at http://www.facingthefuture.org/Home/CurriculumDetails/tabid/131/Default.aspx?ItemID=ESC.

Engaging Students in Conservation: Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard includes:
• Five hands-on lessons
• An introduction to snow leopards and their ecosystem
• An exploration of the human-wildlife conflicts that exist where people and snow leopards overlap
• Opportunities to develop 21st century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and global perspective
• An examination of community-based conservation
• A service learning project related to the protection of snow leopards in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan

These lessons were developed and piloted by teachers and conservation experts including the Snow Leopard Trust, the world's leading authority on the study and protection of the endangered snow leopard.

To download this unit today, visit www.facingthefuture.org
 

Posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009