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Program Description
Students play a game and watch a video to help them see and understand the ways that species become endangered.

Available to schools in:Greenbrier, Monroe, Raleigh & Summers counties

Grade Level: 4^th – 6^th

Program Length: 1 hour

Theme
We can lose the plants and animals around us if we aren't careful.

Instructional Objectives:

1. Identify how plants and animals become endangered

2. List three plants or animals that are listed as endangered in West Virginia

3. State two things he or she can do to keep a species from going extinct

Pre-visit activities are:
Post-visit activities are:

Subject:
Science/Technology

WV Content Standards met:

Science/Technology – SC.4.4.1, SC.4.4.3, SC.4.4.5, SC.5.5.3, SC.5.4.6, SC.5.4.7, SC.6.4.8, SC.6.4.9

The many tributaries of the New River Gorge provide an abundance of cascades and waterfalls on their descent to the New River.