Colors of Conservation

• This coloring book includes a series of Southern California and Northern Baja animals that are threatened by climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, land use changes, and wildfires.
• After reading about how the animal is threatened in English and Spanish, students can color it in and learn about what they can do to help wildlife.

Positives

• This resource allows students to be creative while learning about conservation.
• The Spanish and English versions of the text are on the same page, allowing students to compare the texts in parallel.

Additional Prerequisites

• The resource can be downloaded as a PDF or opened as a Google Doc and then downloaded in other formats (e.g., Docx).
• Terms such as climate change, endemic, adaptation, variability, nocturnal, and pathogens may need to be defined for students.

Differentiation

• As a follow-up activity to coloring in the animals and reading the text, teachers can discuss the conservation action items at the bottom of the document with the class.
• This resource can be used in science classes during lessons about conservation and biodiversity and in art classes during lessons about depicting wildlife and using art for advocacy.
• To extend the lesson, consider having students watch this video about the importance of biodiversity for ecosystems and this one about the importance of ecosystems to support life on Earth. Then have them connect these concepts to how biodiversity and natural ecosystems are important for fighting climate change.