Jan. 19, 2011: Tigers in Trouble

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Activities:

1. Design a Save the Tiger poster that tells people about tigers.

2. Divide a paper into two columns. In one column put newspaper words or pictures of animals that need to live in large spaces. In the other column put words/pictures of animals that live in small spaces.

3 . Circle newspaper pictures of animals that tigers might eat. How many are wild?

4. How are these important to tigers: (a) stripes, (b) preserves, (c) open spaces, and (d) governments?

5. Use the Internet to learn about people born in the Year of the Tiger. Then find three people in the newspaper who fit the description.


Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:

• Students understand the interactions of animals and their environments. (Science: Life Science)
  

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)