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Posters, or informational books/tri fold pamphlets will be created identifying each sheep and its habitat, including adaptations for each habitat.  \nGrade level: 2-6  \nDuration: An hour or more  \nGroup Size: Individually, or projects could be completed by teams of students  \nSetting: indoors  \nCommon Core State Standards:  \n• CCSS.ELA.RI – Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answers, explain and describe.  \n• CCSS.ELA.RI – Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.  \n• CCSS.ELA.RI – By the end of the  \nyear, read and comprehend informational texts, including science and technical texts in the specific grade complexity band proficiently.  \nNext Generation Science Standards:  \n• 3-LS4-3 Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity-Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.  \nBackground:  \nThere are three species of wild sheep that are native to North America.  \nThere is the bighorn sheep, the Dall sheep, and the Stone (also Stone’s) sheep. The Dall and Stone sheep are known as thinhorns. The bighorn sheep has a few subspecies, including the desert bighorn and the California bighorn.  \nEach species and subspecies have been adapted for the particular area in which it lives.  \n*See more on each sheep in the informational text articles that may be given as reading text to the students (primary grade and intermediate grade text has been developed) .  \nMaterials:  \n• informational text articles on each type of sheep (there is a primary book and intermediate grade text)  \n• “Three Species of Wild Sheep”document to show class  \n• poster board to make posters OR blank paper to make tri-fold pamphlets  \n• crayons, colored pencils  \n•  Optional: Develop tri-fold  \npamphlet using a computer  \nprogram, such as Microsoft Word.  \n[www.wildsheepfoundation.org](www.wildsheepfoundation.org)  \n412 Pronghorn Trail – Bozeman, MT  \nProcedures:  \n1. Engage the students by showing photos of the three types of wild sheep. Explain that North America has four types of mountain sheep and these are three of them (the 4th is the Stone sheep) .  \n2. Explain that today they will learn about the habitat of each of these three sheep and how each sheep has adapted for its specific place it lives.  \n3. Pass out printed information (found at end of this lesson), based on the grade level you are teaching (there is a primary edition and an intermediate edition) . Students read through informational text on the sheep (either will the teacher or independently) . Perhaps have students highlight key information that would be good to put into a poster or a tri-fold pamphlet.  \n4. Individually, or in small groups, students use information they have identified in text to create an educational poster on each sheep’s habitat (or a trifold pamphlet) . Students draw, or cut out elements from magazines ofthe habitat of each sheep, along with a drawing of each type of sheep.  \n5. Display the finished work and ask students what they have learned. Discuss how each environment has characteristic life forms, adapted to its climate, kinds of available food, etc. Emphasize that animals adapt to survive.  \nRocky Mountain Bighorn  \nDall Sheep (thinhorn)  \n[www.wildsheepfoundation.org](www.wildsheepfoundation.org)  \nDesert Bighorn  \n412 Pronghorn Trail – Bozeman, MT  \nIntermediate  \nSubspecies of Thinhorn Sheep: Dall Sheep  \nWatchful and difficult to approach, Dall sheep challenge the wildlife watchers, hunters, and photographers who pursue them. The sheep too are challenged-by the harsh alpine environments of Alaska and northwestern Canada where they live. 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