Threatened species ICT inquiry at Adelaide Zoo Choose your own adventure

Key inquiry questions What are the main reasons why some animals are threatened with extinction? What actions can people take to save animals from extinction? Your investigation There are many locations around Adelaide Zoo where information is available to support student investigations about threatened species. Using smart devices, students can find additional information to enrich and deepen the inquiry. As you walk around the zoo information will pop up in the App and students can respond to questions by recording their findings in the App and reviewing later. Year levels Inquiry questions relate to appropriate levels in Australian Curriculum; science, general capabilities, geography and the cross curriculum perspective, sustainability.  Primary Years (Yrs 4, 5 & 6)  Middle Years (Yrs 7, 8 & 9) Your task Don’t forget to download the  Using the Adelaide Zoo App, find the Adelaide Zoo App Hints for installing animals listed on the map from iTunes or Google the AZ App...  Observe these animals in their zoo Play before you habitat For Android devices download the arrive Adelaide Zoo App from Google Play.  The App provides additional

information about threatened species For iPhones and iPads download the  Use the Apps audio, camera and video App from the Apple App store. For functions to record your answers iPads you will find the Adelaide Zoo  Back at school, use these answers to App in the iPhones section of the App continue the inquiry store, not the iPad section.

Download and turn on Bluetooth and location services. Install using the ‘offline mode’ Scroll down to select trail Threatened Species Trail. andInstall click using on the ‘offline mode’

By choosing offline mode you won’t need to use WiFi or data on your visit to the zoo. Threatened species living at Adelaide

Choose one or more species to investigate. When you are at the zoo, listen and read about these animals on the App

= Audio Cassowary Red Panda Cotton-top Tamarin = no Audio

Little Blue Penguin Ring-tailed Lemur Pigmy Hippo

Tasmanian Devil Australian Sea–lion Quokka

White-cheeked Sumatran Orange-bellied Gibbon Orangutan Parrot

Malayan Sun Hyacinth Ghost Bat Bear Macaw

Yellow-footed Rock- Western Swamp wallaby Giant Panda Tortoise ...and so many more! Some of AZ’s threatened species

Ring-tailed Ghost Bat Tasmanian Golden-lion Orange- Sumatran Australian Little Blue Lemur Devil Tamarin bellied Parrot Orangutan Sea Lion Penguin and Tiger

Asian Small- lawed Otter

Asian Small- Pigmy and Giant Panda & White-cheeked Quokka clawed Otter Nile Hippo Red Panda Gibbon

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Hyacinth Siamang Macaw

Inquiry questions and responses your answer Choose one or more animals to investigate deviceand use to yourrecord smart

When you open up the information about a threatened animal in your Adelaide Zoo App, scroll down and find the inquiry question related to this animal.

How will you respond? Students can choose different ways to respond to their inquiry: Written text, audio recordings or video. There is also space for drawing on the back page of this booklet. 1. Using audio or video, record short news style TV or radio segment that tells the listener;

 Where you are (Adelaide Zoo)

 What animal you are investigating

 Where the animal live in the wild?

 Why is this species threatened?

 How endangered (threatened) is this species?

 What are zoos and other organisations doing to protect this species

 What are realistic things that people can do to protect this species and other species? 2. Using text, write a list of feral species that are threatening Australian animals with extinction. Explain how they are cause problems. 3. Using a combination of responses, including photographs, audio, video or text, explain how saving an animal’s habitat in the wild could save many animals and not just one.

Give examples using an animal you are investigating. 4. Go to the next page and think about how people can make a difference to save animals

from extinction.

When recording responses on the Adelaide Zoo App via your iPad, tablet or phone, don’t forget to click on the (star) to save your important information in the App.

Taking action… How can people make a difference? After researching one or more threatened species at Adelaide Zoo, what do you think people can do to save animals from extinction?

Think about the images on the right hand side of this page for clues.

Extension work… discover more

IUCN The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Redlist provides comprehensive information about the risk of extinction for many plants and animals across the planet. Go to the Redlist and dig deeper into the animal your are investigating. http://www.iucnredlist.org/

Zoos SA Zoos SA undertakes a range of actions to save species from extinction. Go to the conservation section of the Zoos SA website to explore some of these programs. https://www.zoossa.com.au/conservation-programs/

Primary Years — Extension ideas

 Explore how the animal you are investigating uses special adaptations to survive in their environment and how habitats are designed to cater for this species at the zoo.

 Explore how zoos cater for animals needs… Think about how the zoo designs modern enclosures to make sure animals are physically healthy, can behave in similar ways as that they can in the wild, and are as stress free as possible.

 Predict what you think could happen to animals in the wild if their habitat is destroyed or changed. Use one animal as an example.

 Explain how scientific knowledge is used in save species from extinction

Middle Years—Extension ideas

 Explore the meaning of the word biodiversity… why is maintaining biodiversity important?

 Explore the impact of feral/introduced plant and animal species on Australian biodiversity

 Explore the role of conservation organisations in protecting biodiversity at one location around the world. What are the pros and cons of different strategies? How successful or unsuccessful have different strategies been in saving habitats and biodiversity?

Notes page… diagrams, sketches, notes…