Florida FRESHWATEREndangered Animal Report and Project

DUE: May 18

We will work on this during class time but some work will probably need to be done at home. The work that is done at home will not require a computer as I have some magazines and books that students mayborrow. Students also need to check books out of the library. Some students have brought in thumb drives that they can use to transport their computer work.

I suggest they choose their favorite animal but also one that has multiple sources of information.

Final Project Requirements

Please put this in a folder or notebook that attaches the pages. If you recycle a folder or notebook with writing on it, it needs to have a cover pasted over it with your animal’s name and picture.

Write the report in your own words. It may be typed or neatly handwritten. You may erase but you may not scribble words out. You may copy the articles or download the information and put them in your folder, but it is not part of your report.

Criteria - This is an assessment not an assignment so it will be weighted greater.

____(5) Title page with your name and a picture of the animal on it.

____(5) Introduction. Why is this animal so important that you chose it?

____(40) Information

*Type of animal including scientific name

*What they look like including size, covering, colors

*Where they live including habitat and region of Florida

*Babies

*What they eat and how they eat it

*Who its predatorsare

*What characteristics help it survive and protect itself

*Other characteristics and interesting facts

*Why they are endangered

*What steps are being taken to protect them and what part you could participate

____ (5) Conclusion including why it is important to you that it flourish

____(10) Organization.

____(10)Pictures including a map of their range (Pictures may be drawn,

downloaded or copied)

____(5) Include a picture of the food web that it is a part of. Label the parts of the

web; producer; primary consumer; secondary consumer; and decomposer

____(15) Grammar spellingand neatness

____( 5) List references. At least 3.

Extra effort shown = Extra credit points _____

References: (Where you found your information.)

How to write them at the end of your report on its own page. Arrange in alphabetical order.

  1. Author. (Last name, first name) Copyright date. Title. Place of publication: name of publisher. (If there is more than 1 author, list them.)
  2. If no Author is given, use publisher’s name; place. Date. Title.
  3. Author. Date of article. Number of issue. Name of magazine or newspaper.Title.
  4. Author. Title. Date written. Date you found it. Web address.

Cut and paste each paragraph into a power point page. This can be done at home or at school. I would appreciate those who can have computer access at home letting me know so that the children who do not have access can have more time at school. However, those who do not have home computer access, will need to hand write their report to be able to have time to create their power point.

What if my report is late?

TURN IT IN early then you won’t have to worry about it being late.

TURN IT IN with extra effort shown to make up points because it is late.

WHATEVER YOU DO: TURN IT IN

FLORIDA’S ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES

OFFICIAL LIST

NOTE: Some of these may live in saltwater. If you find these, please let me know and do not choose it.

Blackmouth shiner / Notropis melanostomus
Bluenose shiner / Pteronotropis welaka
Crystal darter / Crystallaria asprella
Harlequin darter / Etheostoma histrio
Lake Eustis pupfish / Cyprinodon hubbsi
Okaloosa darter / Etheostoma okalossae
Rivulus / Rivulus marmoratus
AMPHIBIANS
Frosted flatwoods salamander / Ambystoma cingulatum
Georgia blind salamander / Haideotriton wallacei
Gopher frog / Lithobates capito
Pine barrens treefrog / Hyla andersonii
Reticulated flatwoods salamander / Ambystoma bishopi
REPTILES
American alligator / Alligator mississippiensis
American crocodile / Crocodylus acutus
Barbour’s map turtle / Graptemys barbouri
Bluetail mole skink / Eumeces egregius lividus
Eastern indigo snake / Drymarchon corais couperi
Florida brownsnake / Storeria victa
Florida pine snake / Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus
Gopher tortoise / Gopherus polyphemus
Key ringneck snake / Diadophis punctatus acricus
Peninsula ribbon snake / Thamnophis sauritus sackenii
Red rat snake / Elaphe guttata
Rim rock crowned snake / Tantilla oolitica
Sand skink / Neoseps reynoldsi
Short-tailed snake / Stilosoma extenuatum
Striped mud turtle / Kinosternon baurii
Suwannee cooter / Pseudemys suwanniensis
BIRDS
Burrowing owl / Athene cunicularia
Eskimo curlew / Numenius borealis
Everglade snail kite / Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus
Florida grasshopper sparrow / Ammodramus savannarum floridanus
Florida sandhill crane / Grus canadensis pratensis
Florida scrub-jay / Aphelocoma coerulescens
Ivory-billed woodpecker / Campephilus principalis
Kirtland’s wood warbler / Dendroica kirtlandii
Least tern / Sterna antillarum
Limpkin / Aramus guarauna
Little blue heron / Egretta caerulea
Marian’s marsh wren / Cistothorus palustris marianae
Osprey / Pandion haliaetus
Piping plover / Charadrius melodus
Red-cockaded woodpecker / Picoides borealis
Reddish egret / Egretta rufescens
Roseate spoonbill / Platalea ajaja
Roseate tern / Sterna dougallii dougallii
Snowy egret / Egretta thula
Snowy plover / Charadrius alexandrinus
Southeastern American kestrel / Falco sparverius paulus
Tricolored heron / Egretta tricolor
White-crowned pigeon / Patagioenas leucocephala
Whooping crane / Grus americana
White ibis / Eudocimus albus
Wood stork / Mycteria americana

MAMMALS

Anastasia Island beach mouse / Peromyscus polionotus phasma
Big Cypress fox squirrel / Sciurus niger avicennia
Choctawhatchee beach mouse / Peromyscus polionotus Allophrys
Everglades mink / Neovison vison evergladensis
Finback whale / Balaenoptera physalus
Florida black bear / Ursus americanus floridanus
Florida mastiff bat / Eumops glaucinus floridanus
Florida mouse / Podomys floridanus
Florida panther / Puma [=Felis] concolor coryi
Gray bat / Myotis grisescens
Gray wolf / Canis lupus
Homosassa shrew / Sorex longirostris eonis
Indiana bat / Myotis sodalis
Key deer / Odocoileus virginianus clavium
Perdido Key beach mouse / Peromyscus polionotus trissyllepsis
Red wolf / Canis rufus
Rice rat / Oryzomys palustris natator
Sanibel Island rice rat / Oryzomys palustris sanibeli
Sherman’s fox squirrel / Sciurus niger shermani
Sherman’s short-tailed shrew / Blarina carolonensis shermani
Southeastern beach mouse / Peromyscus polionotus niveiventris
St. Andrew beach mouse / Peromyscus polionotus peninsularis
West Indian manatee / Trichechus manatus
INSECTS / Procambarus econfinae
American burying beetle / Procambarus erythrops
Miami blue butterfly / Palaemonetes cummingi
MOLLUSKS
Florida treesnail / Liguus fasciatus
Stock Island tree snail / Orthalicus reses