Lesson Plan : Sloth Bears.
Teacher Name: | Sara, Fernanda & Daniel. |
Grade: | Grade 5 |
Subject: | Other |
Topic: | Animal cruelty, Sloth Bears. |
Content: | What is a Sloth bear and main characteristics. How people misstreat sloth bears. Groups against this cruelty. Activities: .new vocabulary. .Choose the correct answer. .creat a poster to save the bears and stop cruelty. |
Goals: | Make the students know everything about sloth bears and make them love the animal and know everything about cruelty people do with them. Motivate the students to join associations or help them in different ways to avoid these bad treats. |
Objectives: | With written information we will show students how sloth bears suffer in some parts of the world and what we can do to save them. |
Materials: | Cardboards,worksheets, pictures, colors, and mind maps. |
Introduction: | A Sloth bear is a nocturnal forest dweller in India. Some 8,000 exist in the wild. Another 1,000 or so (estimates vary from 500 to 2,000) are held in captivity and used as performers. Sloth bears are one of the smaller bear species, about 76 cmtrs (centimeters) tall at the shoulder and some 1.60 m (meters) long. They weigh on average 500 to 550 kg (kilograms). They have a long shaggy black coat with whitish or yellowish hair on the snout and on the chest, where it forms a distinctive crescent. Their primary diet consists of ants and termites, supplemented by honey, fruit, grains, and small vertebrates. In the wild a sloth bear can live more than 20 years. In captivity, however, a dancing bear rarely lives past the age of 7 or 8. |
Development: | The bears are capture from the wild as cubs, an act that often necessitates killing the mother first. Some cubs, traumatized, die of shock. Survivors are sold to trainers, who use sticks and physical threats to teach the orphaned cubs to stand, move on their hind legs, and perform other tricks. The cubs� teeth are often pushed out or broken for the safety of humans; their nails are clipped short or removed (both of which are painful to bears); and a hot poker or piece of metal is run through the snout or lip to make a permanent hole through which a rope is anchored to control the bear. All of this is done without anesthesia. The trainers make the bears move by pulling on the rope, which causes great pain, and beating the bears if they do not obey. The owners, being poor themselves, cannot feed the bears a nutritionally sound diet even if they want to, and many bears lose their fur or suffer from cataracts and go blind. All this cruelty is done for human entretainment in the outsides of the Taj Mahal that is one of the 7 Wonders of the world. Trainers ask for money to the turists in exchange. There are different associations that are interested in helping these bears like: � Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) � Wildlife SOS saving the Dancing Bears of India, one bear at a time. � World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) These associations are creating sanctuaries to keep the bears safe and away from people who damage them. |
Practice: | New vocabulary (words to know) Choose the correct answer. (individually) |
Accommodations: | Students have to join in groups of 3 - 4 members to create a poster. |
Checking For Understanding: | Ask students to come to the front and show and explain the poster to the rest of the class. |
Closure: | Ask students their personal opinions about this cruelty and congratulate them for the cooperation. |
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