RUE Episode 50: Distribution and Range
Welcome to the Episode 50 page: Distribution and Range!
It’s time to find the distribution and range of your chosen animal. We model how and where to find this information. More importantly, we explore what this information means and how it’s important to your animal of choice for your research and report.
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Language Objectives
Use verbs and verb phrases as connecting phrases to communicate the geographic location of an animal population in terms of range and distribution. Use cardinal directions and region names to describe a location.
Academic Content Objectives
Geography/Map Reading: Use a map to find the location of an animal’s range. Life Science: locate and communicate the range of an animal population.
Video Clips used
(Artistic) Bears of Grants Pass
Episode Summary
In this episode, we modeled finding information about an animal’s range – also called its distribution. We shared some words and phases that can be used to connect the notes we made from wildlife cards to other key words to produce sentences. We used Black bears, grizzly bears, and river otters to demonstrate how to report on an animal’s distribution on the physical earth. We also watched some videos about artistic bear representations and river otters.
Materials Used
These are the slides we used to develop the skills of reporting on an animal’s range. Click the slide to make it bigger. Use your back arrow to return to this page.
Here are some of the research topics for the report on an animal.
Here are some of the research topics for our reports.
Here are research topics we’ll need for future sections of the animal reports.
Here’s a quick review of what goes into an animal’s Description.
We looked at the distribution pattern of Black Bears.
This slide describes what we mean when we say distribution or range.
This is the wording about Black Bear distribution from the wildlife cards.
Using the notes we wrote about Black Bear range, we used connecting words to compose sentences.
Bare-bones notes about Black Bear distribution or range.
A long sentence about Grizzly Bear range.
Notes on Grizzly Bear distribution from the wildlife card
Looking at the cover of a wildlife card about River Otters. The map in the corner shows the distribution pattern.
Another quick review of description features
Notes from the wildlife card about River Otter range
This is an example of a paragraph describing the range of River Otters. We used the notes from the wildlife card and used the connecting words and phases to compose sentences and group them into a paragraph.
A quick glance at the mammal classification that fits the river otter
Here’s another example of writing a description of the River Otter’s range, referencing more geographic regions.
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