Positives

• Each animal fact sheet is incredibly detailed and includes images of the animals.
• The resource gives practical ways to handle encounters with animals as nuisances or threats.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students may need the terms extirpated, deciduous, coniferous, carrion, brackish, plastron, quarry, neurological, and others defined before they read the sheets.
• Students should know how animal populations fluctuate due to various pressures.
• The link for hunting information on the coyote fact sheet is broken.

Differentiation

• Teachers can assign the fact sheets according to students' reading stamina, as the fact sheets vary in length.
• For ELL students, teachers can use tools like the Google Translate Chrome Extension to translate the page into the student's preferred language.
• Students can use the fact sheets and other resources to research an animal of their choice and how climate change has influenced their survival, habitat, and other factors.
• Language arts students can write narratives from the perspective of one of the animals, describing their life throughout the year.
• Teachers can coordinate with woodshop classes to have students build the nest boxes described in some fact sheets.