Our School Project this year is called 'The Earth'. We are working on animals is danger of extinction (Primary 2nd Cycle) and also on recycling and saving energy to keep our planet and our school 'Clean and Green' (Primary 3rd Cycle).
Year 3 children find out about Giant Pandas,
and Year 4 pupils about Loggerhead Turtles.
Both are ENDANGERED SPECIES!!!
IUCNThe International Union for Conservation of Nature
helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most
press environment and development challenges.
IUCN Red List
Lower Risk Categories
Least Concern (LC or LR/lc): Least Concern or lowest risk. There are plenty of the species.
Near Threatened (NT or LR/nt): Near Threatened. Close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future.
Threatened Categories
Vulnerable (VU): considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
Endangered (EN): considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
Critically endangered (CR): considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
Other Categories
Extinct in the Wild (EW): known only to survive in captivity.
Extinct (EX): no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died.
Now we now lots of things about these animals.
GIANT PANDA / FAST FACTS
LOGGERHEAD TURTLES
Largest of the hard-shelled turtles, the endangered loggerhead sea turtle can be found in all but the coldest ocean waters.
Loggerhead turtles are the most abundant of all the marine turtle species in U.S. waters. But persistent population declines due to pollution, shrimp trawling, and development in their nesting areas, among other factors, have kept this wide-ranging seagoer on the threatened species list since 1978.
The largest of all hard-shelled turtles—leatherbacks are bigger but have soft shells—loggerheads have massive heads, strong jaws, and a reddish-brown shell, or carapace.
Adult males reach about three feet (nearly one metre) in shell length and weigh about 250 pounds (113 kilograms), but large specimens of more than 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms) have been found.
We love drawing and colouring!
We use our best crayons to get a good picture.
Year 5 pupils made and decorated three big containers. a green one for glass, a yellow one for plastic, milk and juice cartons, and a blue container to put paper and cardboard in it.
They help us to keep our school clean and to be more eco-friendly.
The Earth and the recycling symbol are the 'Best Friends'. They look happy!
Year 6 kids give us some tips to save energy, keep a healthy diet and recycle all we can. They 'Think in Green'. Let's join them!
GIANT PANDA / FAST FACTS
Type: Mammal
Diet: Omnivore
Average life span in the wild: 20 years
Diet: Omnivore
Average life span in the wild: 20 years
Size: 4 to 5 ft (1.2 to 1.5 m)
Weight: 136 kg Protection status: ENDANGERED!!!
Weight: 136 kg Protection status: ENDANGERED!!!
GIANT PANDAS
The giant panda has an insatiable appetite for bamboo. A typical animal eats half the day—a full 12 out of every 24 hours—and relieves itself dozens of times a day. It takes 12.5 kilograms of bamboo to satisfy a giant panda's daily dietary needs, and it hungrily plucks the stalks with elongated wrist bones that function rather like thumbs. Pandas will sometimes eat birds or rodents as well.
Wild pandas live only in remote, mountainous regions in central China. These high bamboo forests are cool and wet—just as pandas like it. They may climb as high as 3,962 metres to feed on higher slopes in the summer season.
Pandas are often seen eating in a relaxed sitting posture, with their hind legs stretched out before them. They may appear sedentary, but they are skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
The giant panda has an insatiable appetite for bamboo. A typical animal eats half the day—a full 12 out of every 24 hours—and relieves itself dozens of times a day. It takes 12.5 kilograms of bamboo to satisfy a giant panda's daily dietary needs, and it hungrily plucks the stalks with elongated wrist bones that function rather like thumbs. Pandas will sometimes eat birds or rodents as well.
Wild pandas live only in remote, mountainous regions in central China. These high bamboo forests are cool and wet—just as pandas like it. They may climb as high as 3,962 metres to feed on higher slopes in the summer season.
Pandas are often seen eating in a relaxed sitting posture, with their hind legs stretched out before them. They may appear sedentary, but they are skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
Giant pandas are solitary. They have a highly developed sense of smell that males use to avoid each other and to find females for mating in the spring. After a five-month pregnancy, females give birth to a cub or two, though they cannot care for both twins. The blind infants weigh only 142 grams at birth and cannot crawl until they reach three months of age. They are born white, and develop their much loved coloring later.
There are only about 1,000 giant pandas left in the wild. Perhaps 100 pandas live in zoos, where they are always among the most popular attractions. Much of what we know about pandas comes from study of these zoo animals, because their wild cousins are so rare and elusive.
LOGGERHEAD TURTLES / FAST FACTS
Type: Reptile
Diet: Carnivore
Average life span in the wild: More than 50 years
Size: 90 centimetres
Weight: 115 Kilograms
Group name: Flotilla
Protection status: ENDANGERED!!!
Type: Reptile
Diet: Carnivore
Average life span in the wild: More than 50 years
Size: 90 centimetres
Weight: 115 Kilograms
Group name: Flotilla
Protection status: ENDANGERED!!!
Did you know?
Sea turtles can move through the water at speeds of up to 24 kms/h.
Sea turtles can move through the water at speeds of up to 24 kms/h.
LOGGERHEAD TURTLES
Largest of the hard-shelled turtles, the endangered loggerhead sea turtle can be found in all but the coldest ocean waters.
Loggerhead turtles are the most abundant of all the marine turtle species in U.S. waters. But persistent population declines due to pollution, shrimp trawling, and development in their nesting areas, among other factors, have kept this wide-ranging seagoer on the threatened species list since 1978.
The largest of all hard-shelled turtles—leatherbacks are bigger but have soft shells—loggerheads have massive heads, strong jaws, and a reddish-brown shell, or carapace.
Adult males reach about three feet (nearly one metre) in shell length and weigh about 250 pounds (113 kilograms), but large specimens of more than 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms) have been found.
They are primarily carnivores, munching jellyfish, conchs, crabs, and even fish, but will eat seaweed and sargassum occasionally.
Mature females will often return, sometimes over thousands of miles, to the beach where they hatched to lay their eggs.
Mature females will often return, sometimes over thousands of miles, to the beach where they hatched to lay their eggs.
Worldwide population numbers are unknown, but scientists studying nesting populations are seeing marked decreases despite endangered species protections.
Here we are using enormous Loggerhead Turtle and a Giant Panda projections to copy them on a big piece of paper.
Here we are using enormous Loggerhead Turtle and a Giant Panda projections to copy them on a big piece of paper. 
We love drawing and colouring! 
We use our best crayons to get a good picture. 
Year 5 pupils made and decorated three big containers. a green one for glass, a yellow one for plastic, milk and juice cartons, and a blue container to put paper and cardboard in it.
They help us to keep our school clean and to be more eco-friendly.
The Earth and the recycling symbol are the 'Best Friends'. They look happy!
Year 6 kids give us some tips to save energy, keep a healthy diet and recycle all we can. They 'Think in Green'. Let's join them!