Teacher_Book - General - Draft 23 - 2015

ACTIVITY 5
LESSON PLAN
DATE:
TIME:
TOPIC: Geographical Issue: Threatened Habitats (Rhino Poaching)
FOCUS: Perspectives, Views and Opinions on Africa’s Wildlife
INSTRUCTOR (S):
STUDENTS WILL BE ENGAGED VIA:
x Teacher driven
Student driven
x Individual
Pairs
Simulation
Hands on
Synthesis
x Analysis
Peer Tutoring
Groups
Identification
Experiments
Discussion
Teams
Problem Solving
Technology
Lecture
Stations
Reflective
x Persuasive
Storytelling
Games
Puzzles
OTHER:
OBJECTIVE(S): Students will learn about: the different and complex array of perspectives and opinions on wildlife in Africa and is central to this
geographical issue of ‘threatened habitats’.
PREPARATION: Familiarise yourself with this lesson by:
1. Watching the IAPF school video blog 6 (https://goo.gl/QNfp0X) (5 minutes)
2. Watching the TEDx talk on legalising the rhino horn trade (https://goo.gl/TQgrQR) (14minutes)
3. Watching the news clip of South African breeders (https://goo.gl/Gkxjrf) (2 minutes)
4. Read the Background Information below.
5 minutes Instructor: Settle the class as per normal (ie have a regular structure to each lesson eg: be in a certain place or
seat, have your roll ready to mark and check the seating plan, go through classroom standards of behaviour).
Introduce the lesson: Today’s lesson, you will consider the variety of views and opinions of Africa’s wildlife. You
will find, not everyone likes the wildlife.
10 minutes Instructor: Goto the IAPF website (www.iapf.org) and click on the following tabs:
Education, then School Video Blogs, then Blog 6: Activity 18 - Perspectives)
or use the URL: https://goo.gl/QNfp0X
Play Blog 6: Activity 18 - Perspectives
In this video blog, IAPF CEO Damien Mander will introduce the information for this activity. While the video plays,
the students need to be filling in the worksheet boxes. Consider pausing the video for students to get precise
information on each perspective.
20 minutes Instructor: Ask students to complete the perspective boxes with notes about each. In the background play a few
clips such as:
For the Farmers / Conservationists: watch the clips:
- Called: South African Breeders Ask Court To End Rhino Horn Trade Ban (https://goo.gl/Gkxjrf) (2 minutes)
- Called: We have to legalise trade in rhino horn (TEDx Johannesburg) (https://goo.gl/TQgrQR) (14 minutes)
15 minutes Instructor: Get students to write a response to the question:
Discuss which perspective is correct?
• Students
Activity
Book (Page
15)
• IAPF website
- School Video
Blog
- Blog 6
• youtube
(clips about
farmers
wanting the
CITEIS ban
lifted)
• Lead pencil
• Eraser
END OF
LESSON
Instructor: To dismiss the class, stand students behind their desks, wait for quiet, ask them to pick up any rubbish
from around their desks.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
C.I.T.E.S. is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora & is an international agreement
between governments. Its aim is to ensure international trade in wild animal and plant specimens does not threaten their
survival. In 1977 C.I.T.E.S. banned rhino horn trade globally. Any sale of rhino horn became illegal, globally. Rhino numbers
were about 500,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, it fell to approximately 70,000 (1970) and is now less than 24,000
(2015). In 1989, elephant ivory tusk trade was banned. For elephants, their population was once 3-5 million, it is now less than
20% (under 500,000 left).
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