Problem Based Learning Lessons
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Goal: West Virginia Students Help Pass the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
Purpose: To educate students about the abuse of big wild cats and give them a voice in ending the abuse by writing a letter to West Virginia Senator Capito in support of the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
Lesson -
Using Haiku , ”A Forever Home” contains before and after text and pictures that simply illustrate examples of abuse and rescue of a few of the cats.
Custom K-8 Download pdf
Goal: West Virginia Students Help Pass the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
Purpose: To educate students about the abuse of big wild cats and give them a voice in ending the abuse by writing a letter to West Virginia Senator Capito in support of the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
Lesson -
- Background information - Why do big cats need help?
- Listen and/or read “A Forever Home”
- Download the app Storyio, choose Kids Books, listen to Carole Baskin, Founder of Big Cat Rescue, read the story
Using Haiku , ”A Forever Home” contains before and after text and pictures that simply illustrate examples of abuse and rescue of a few of the cats.
- Read the stories of the cats in the book and find examples of before and after of other animals at https://bigcatrescue.org/catbio/
- Make pages that could go in the book
- Tell another example that could be put in the book
- Write Haiku to describe the plight of another abused animal
- Look at the substance of The Big Cat Public Safety Act at https://bigcatrescue.org/big-cat-act/
- Depending on age level, you may need to simplify this
- There are other resources on this page for middle school/high school
- Create a letter to explain why The Big Cat Public Safety Act needs to be passed
- Include specific reasons.
- Be sure to give your return address
- Send the letter to Senator Capito because she is a senior member of the group who has been assigned the bill, The Environment and Public Works Committee.
Storyio App
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