Canada's Next Official Animal

For the Convention of Learning on December 16th students in room 16 will presenting their suggestions for Canada's next official animal.  The Beaver has been Canada's symbol since 1975, when a private member’s bill, which had been passed by the Senate  received Royal Assent, making the beaver the official national symbol of Canada.  More recently a Canadian senator has called for a national “emblem makeover” by replacing a vegetarian rodent with the world’s largest walking carnivore that thrives in the cold.  

Students will be presenting their work both orally and on a poster.   The following criteria needs to be included on the poster: 

•   Catchy title which includes the animals's name and Canada's Next National Animal.  It should be big and bold.  

•   Subtitles - Habitat, Food Chain (what does it eat, predator and prey), Physical Features (adaptations), Why should it be Canada's next animal?

•   Four paragraphs (one for each of the above topics)

•   Pictures - at least one well drawn, labelled picture of the animal, map showing where it lives and a picture of it's habitat.  

Students have been given a graphic organizer for their research.  The research should now be complete and they should be working on completing their paragraphs.  Good copies of all four paragraphs will be due on Thursdays.  If they would like to type their paragraphs they are encouraged to do so in a google doc so that it will be available for them to work on both at school and at home.