Endangered Species


Teacher Resources

Endangered Species Activities

PBS offers a full list of Nature programs focused on endangered species. You can watch many of them right from your computer. In addition, there are other resources available to extend your knowledge about the animals featured in this series.

Do your students like to color? — You can download and print a coloring book about endangered species titled Save Our Species from the Environmental Protection Agency. Or free printed copies are available to order.

Endangered Species Lesson Plans

Threatened, Endangered, and Extinct lesson plan — for 3rd and 4th grades.

How about an artwork project? — find a great lesson at endangered.org.

Endangered Species Info!

Preschool and Kindergarten teachers — here is a great site for activities related to endangered species, just right for the young ones you teach. From First-School.ws

Find out more about the IUCN's Red List of endangered species. This list provides details about species from all over the world. Find out how they are classified and if you see something you want to learn about, click it to find out details about the species.

Scientist and bioethicist Dr. Sara Chan argues, Yes, We Should Care [About Endangered Species] — But Why?