Endangered Species Day provides an opportunity for schools, libraries, museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, agencies, businesses, community groups and conservation organizations to educate the public about the importance of protecting endangered species and highlight the everyday actions that individuals and groups can take to help protect our nation’s wildlife, fish and plants. For teachers and other educators, we have developed Endangered Species Day educational materials.

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Science Lesson Plan

• Comprehensive lesson plan for elementary-high school with numerous activities and handouts.

Art Lesson Plan

• Lesson plan specifically designed to help students create their endangered species artwork and to enter the annual Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest.
• All participating artists are encouraged to download and print our Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest Certificate of Participation. Thank you for contributing to Endangered Species Day!

Podcast Series

• A series of podcasts that provide valuable background information on endangered species conservation--the Endangered Species Act, causes, examples of local species, success stories of species recovery and what we can do to help--that can assist teachers, community leaders and others in researching and developing presentations.

Classroom Activity

Examples of how teachers are helping their classes to better understand the importance of endangered species preservation.

• Dave Cox, a biology teacher at Land Community College, Springfield, Ill., shares his experiences teaching endangered species conservation.

• Diane Bentivegna and the students of Woodmere Middle School's Class 7A created the video, "Voice of Youth: "Protect the Endangered Species Act".

• Illinois High School science teacher Paul Ritter incorpoorated endangered turtles into his classes curriculum.

ABT Article

• This article--"Bringing Endangered Species to the Classroom"--appeared in the May, 2011 issue of The American Biology Teacher. It features a variety of suggestions for instructors wanting to teach endangered species preservation in their biology, ecology, conservation or other course.

Film Library

• Teachers/others will receive a special discount on endangered species conservation/other environmental films from The Video Project. Notable films include Call of Life (Facing the Mass Extinction and A Simple Question, the Story of STRAW.

Toolkit

Endangered Species Day Materials

Endangered Species Act factsheet

Endangered Species Day brochure

Endangered Species Day flyer

Endangered Species Day stickers

Girl Scout Badges - Badges for Endangered Species Day