One way to get students to emphasise with threatened species is with narrative. Fortunately there are so many great children's Picture Books that deal with this theme.
These ones should be still available in your local bookshop or online.
These ones should be still available in your local bookshop or online.
Phasmid by Rohan Cleave and Coral Tulloch is an Honour Book on CBCA 2016 Awards.
The Little Corroboree Frog by Tracey Holton Rameriz
The Dream of the Thylacine by Margaret Wild
One Small Island: The Story of Macquarie Island by Coral Tulloch and Alison Lester
Chelonia Green: Champion of the Turtles by Christobel Mattingley
Search your school or public library for these ones.
Cat on the Island by Gary Crew
I Did Nothing: The Extinction of the Gastric Brooding Frog by Gary Crew
I Said Nothing: The Extinction of the Paradise Parrot by Gary Crew
I Saw Nothing : The Extinction of the Thylacine by Gary Crew
One Less Fish by Kim Michelle Toft
Yakkin the Swamp Turtle: The Most dangerous year by Guundie and Gerald Kuchling