Topic: Species protection of plants and animals

Target group

High school / technical school student

Core curriculum

General requirements

V. Reasoning and applying the acquired knowledge to solving biological problems. Student:

1) interprets information and explains causal relationships between processes and phenomena, formulates conclusions.

Specific requirements

XI. Biodiversity, its threats and protection. Student:

5. explains the importance of species restitution and reintroduction for the preservation of biodiversity; gives examples of restituted species.

General aim of education

Students explain the purpose of species protection of plants, fungi and animals.

Key competences

• communication in foreign languages;

• digital competence;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• explain the purpose of species protection;

• compare active and passive protection of species;

• explain the concept of restitution and reintroduction and give examples of plants and animals reintroduced in our country;

• compare active and passive protection and describe the situations in which they are used.

Methods/techniques

• expository

  • talk.

• activating

  • discussion.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• activity in groups;

• collective activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;

• interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers.

Lesson plan overview

Before classes

• Students get acquainted with the content of the abstract. They prepare to work on the lesson in such a way to be able to summarize the material read in their own words and solve the tasks themselves.

Introduction

• The teacher gives the topic, the goals of the lesson in a language understandable for the student, and the criteria of success.

Realization

• The persons appointed by the teacher discuss the following issues:

  • species protection as one of the forms of nature conservation in force in Poland;

  • strict and partial protection of species;

  • passive and active protection of species;

  • restitution of species

• The teacher initiates a discussion aimed at highlighting the differences between strict and partial protection as well as between passive and active protection.

• Participants familiarize themselves with the content presented in the interactive illustration. Then the teacher discusses the issues with the students.

• The teacher divides the class into groups. Each team chooses two genres: one presented in the interactive illustration and the other, close to the first, described in the abstract or other source, whose reintroduction failed or succeeded with unexpectedly large success (eg, the queen's web and apollo apollo, peregrine falcon and drop ordinary). Students analyze the similarities and differences between selected species, taking into account their habitat and food requirements and reproductive strategy. On this basis, they formulate conclusions regarding the influence of various factors on the success or failure of reintroduction attempts.

• Students, working individually or in pairs, carry out interactive exercises to check and consolidate knowledge learned during the lesson. Selected people discuss the correct solutions for interactive exercises. The teacher completes or corrects the statements of the proteges.

Summary

• The teacher briefly presents the most important issues discussed in class. He answers the additional questions of the proteges and explains all their doubts. Students complete notes.

Homework

• Listen to the abstract recording at home. Pay attention to pronunciation, accent and intonation. Learn to pronounce the words learned during the lesson.

• Carry out tasks number 1.1 and 1.2.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

Species protection of plants and animals

The aim of species protection of plants, animals, and fungi is to preserve the biodiversity of rare and extinct wild species in our country, as well as to protect their habitats and refuges.

Species protection can be passive and consist on total elimination of human's influence on ecosystem or active, when survival of the species rely on undertaken protective actions.

Active protection is acceptable in natural reserves or National parks if it is included in their protection plan.

Species can be protected in substitute positions in natural habitats and at objects located outside them for instance in zoos, botanical gardens and gene banks.

To effective protection of some species for instance birds of prey, rare ferns, orchids, and lichens are designated so‑called protection zones.

The reintroduced species resistuated are, for example, European bison, European beaver, European ground squirrel, Peregrine falcon, Alpine glade.

Species may be subject to strict (total) or partial protection. Strict control is year‑round care of individuals and their development stages. Partial protection is a form of protection which allows the periodic possibility of acquiring individuals of protected species for therapeutic, consumer and economic purposes.

• The aim of species protection of plants, animals, and mushrooms is to preserve the biodiversity of rare and extinct wild species in our country, as well as to protect their habitats and refuges.