Wild animals in captivity

Read the information below about animal behaviour

animal behaviour info

Opinions- for and against keeping animals in zoos

http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-we-ban-the-keeping-of-animals-in-zoos

The plight of animals held captive in Zoos

http://www.captiveanimals.org/news/2010/03/10-facts-about-zoos

Read this!

Are zoos good or bad for animals?

Click on the link below to read about Zoo pros (the good things) and cons (the bad things)!

http://animal.discovery.com/animal-facts/zoos-good-or-bad1.htm

Fun with Prepositions!

I thought it was a really cool idea to get students to do a drawing activity, with me dictating a set on instructions to them. Of course, the instructions contained a lot of different prepositions.

“Prepositions are used before nouns to give additional information in a sentence. Usually, prepositions are used to show where something is located or when something happened.”

This is the list of instructions (prepositions in bold):

• Open a blank page in your notebook.
• Draw a medium sized square in the middle of the page.
• Draw a rectangle inside the square with its shorter side touching the bottom of the square in the middle.
• Draw two small squares inside the bigger square at the same level on the either side of the rectangle.
• Draw a triangle on top of the square.
• On top of the triangle draw a small flag.
• Draw two trees beside the big square.
• Draw a swing inbetween two branches.
• Draw three steps below and touching the big square.
• Under the trees draw a small pond with fish swimming.
• Draw a few birds above the flag.
• Draw a few mangoes hanging from the trees.
• Draw a fence around the big trees.
• Draw mangoes lying on the ground.
• Draw the sun over the birds

After a bit more practice and exposure to prepositions, finally, students were asked to write down as many prepositions that they remember and now know of.

Have a look at our class ‘wordle’ for this list of words. The larger words were the most common/popular for our class!

Dictionary

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Circle of Viewpoints

http://science-junkie.tumblr.com/post/37258864964/psycholar-obese-kids-are-more-susceptible-to#.UUJiEr8tgzl

1. I am thinking of … the topic… From the point of view of … the viewpoint you’ve chosen

2. I think … describe the topic from your viewpoint. Be an actor – take on the character of your viewpoint

3. A question I have from this viewpoint is … ask a question from this viewpoint