RUE Episode 50: Distribution and Range

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.

Videos Used in this Episode

(Artistic) Bears of Grants Pass

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Short River Otter Video

The short video about River otters can be seen and downloaded bu clicking here.

Longer River Otter Video on You Tube.

River otter video on archive.org. Click here to watch or download.

Video Links

Trail cams are capturing video of wildlife throughout the world. Michael Outside shares his footage from the Southwest, including an image of a cougar. Click here to see what he’s picked up on his trail camera. You can expect to see ads.

Learning Materials

Below are materials we use during this episode of Ramping Up your English.

Here are some of the research topic for our reports.Here

Here are research topics we’ll need for future sections of the animal reports

We looked at the distribution pattern of black bears.

This slide explains what we mean when we say distribution or range.

This is the wording about black bear distribution from the wildlife cards.

Bare-bones notes about black bear distribution or range

Using the notes we wrote about black bear range, we used connecting words to compose sentences.

Notes on grizzly bear distribution from the wildlife cards

A long sentence about grizzly bear range

We’re 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 phrases 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 areas.

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