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World Wildlife Day: Here’s How You Can Teach Students About The Wild
A little change in the curriculum can help students be a better future and help sustain wildlife.
Today, 3rd March is celebrated as World Wildlife Day to raise awareness about the world’s wild animals and plants as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. The 2020 theme is “Sustaining all life on earth."
World Wildlife Day is also an attempt to alert humankind of the importance of wildlife’s presence, preservation and consequences if ignored. For example, it was not long back when we discovered how Penguins, Polar Bears and Rhinos are at the verge of extinction. The cruciality of this matter lies with the precariousness of preservation of the wild flora and fauna.
Don't you think the duty lies majorly with the education system to educate the future generation about protecting the remaining wild animals and plants? We, at ScooNews, emphatically feel and propose to include studies about wildlife from the very beginning in the education syllabus and make it mandatory.
In this way, it'll become easier to explain to them about the sanctity of all life forms on Earth, along with initiative to sustain the remaining wildlife. The curiosity in children is their major skill and to develop them become a thinker who would want to conserve the wildlife could be a legacy we should want to leave behind.
So, how do we do it?
First, schools could do activities involving children, for example, taking them on National Parks instead of opting for a zoo where animals are not caged and enjoy living in their natural habitats. Second, Wildlife Experts could be invited for guest lectures and have interactive Q&A sessions with the little ones. Another idea could be organising debate competitions with burning wildlife topics like Project Tiger, etc.
In fact, there could be a suggestive reading of books on wildlife. We suggest a list of books that can be introduced to kids between the age group of 3 to 12.
- Red Alert! By Catherine Barr
- 10 Reasons to Love a Penguin/Lion, by Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow
- The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus, by Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
- I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree
- So you think you know about Tyrannosaurus Rex/Triceratops/Diplodocus? by Ben Garrod
- The Coral Kingdom, by Laura Knowles and Jennie Webber
- Ambushed by Nayanika Mahtani
- Tiger by the Tail by Venita Coelho
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