This is a great way to get kids more involved in environmental
issues. Save The Tiger Fund often sees two kinds of projects:
Individual students
Students pick tigers as their chosen research animal and use the
internet and library to research their chosen area of interest: What are
the remaining tiger subspecies and where do they live? Which tiger
subspecies are extinct and why? Why do people eat tigers? What are the
main threats to tigers?
Encourage students to interview their local tiger zookeeper about
wild tiger conservation.
Get the student to present their project to the class using power
point.
Class projects
Choose a broad tiger-themed project such as Wild Tigers, Tiger
Trade, Tiger Ecology, Tigers in Zoos.
Get each student to ask a question about tigers that fits with the
theme and is not duplicated by another class member.
Ask them each to use the internet, newspapers, magazines and the
library to find answers to their questions. Encourage them to draw
diagrams and pictures to illustrate their pieces.
Compile the project on a class notice board or electronically, and
print a copy for each student.
Sign up to the tiger watch quarterly newsletter and print it out for
the class notice board.
Write to Save The Tiger Fund to get a tiger poster for your
classroom.
Make a school visit to your local zoo and find out what your zoo is
doing to save tigers from extinction.
