The Snow Leopard Trust's Classroom is your one-stop shop for lesson plans that teach students about snow leopards, wildlife and habitat conservation, and biodiversity!  These lesson plans all require the Free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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• All Ears for Adaptation: A lesson in ear design
• Prey and Predator: A lesson on Interaction
• Resources, Consumers and Predators: A lesson on Balance
• Put the Snow Leopard on the Map: a lesson on geography
• Living among the mountains of the snow leopard: a lesson in ways of life

All Ears for Adaptation: A lesson in ear design

Grade level: 1-6

Subjects: Science and Communication

Time: 15 – 25 minutes

Overview:
This mini-lesson gives students a “hand-on” chance to experience how animals’ ears have evolved to maximize sound and identify direction of sounds and thus enhance survival. Students work in pairs in a simple experiment that requires no materials. This mini-lesson is a powerful and engaging way to illustrate adaptation and evolution.

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All Ears for Adaptation Lesson Plan

Prey and Predator: A lesson on Interaction

Grade level: 1-8

Subjects: Science/Communications

Time: 40– 45 minutes

Overview:
This participatory lesson gives students the opportunity to experience the prey-predator relationship. It makes salient some of the skills a predator must practice in order to catch prey, and the skills necessary for prey to elude predators. This experiment requires few materials and allows all students the opportunity to observe and make statements regarding prey/predatory relationships.

Requirements:
Two blindfolds and a large open space to work in.

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Prey and Predator Lesson Plan

Resources, Consumers and Predators: A lesson on Balance

Grade level: 6 and above

Subjects:
Biology, ecology, mathematics (using graphs)

Time:
45 mins to 1 hour, with opportunity for written follow up.

Group size:
Up to 25 active participants at one time. May rotate to include up to 40

Goal:
To demonstrate the role of predators in controlling ungulate populations

Key words:
Eco-system, resources, fluctuate, population crash, predator, prey

Overview:
This is a fun game-style activity about the relationship between a population and available resources. Ibex compete for a limited number of resources and biologists monitor the ibex population as it fluctuates. The activity shows how the presence of snow leopards in the ecosystem dampens extreme population fluctuations. We have played this game in Pakistan, India and Kyrgystan, and each time it has been very stimulating!

Requirements:
Open space with enough room for 2 lines of 8 students to stand about 8 meters opposite each other; a white or black board, and we provide the rest.

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Resources, Consumers, and Predators Lesson Plan

Put the Snow Leopard on the Map: a lesson on geography

Grade level: 6 and above

Subjects:
Geography, social studies, politics

Time:
45 mins to 1 hour, with opportunity for written follow up.

Group size:
Suitable for pair or small group work

Goal:
To increase knowledge of geography of Asia, using both political and relief maps. To practice map reading skills and using index in Atlas.

Overview:
This lesson, based around work sheets requires students to find and transfer information from a variety of sources. It also stimulates discussion about the political history of the region. Students identify mountain ranges, cities and countries in Central and Himalayan Asia.

Requirements:
A photocopier to copy the worksheets

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Snow Leopard Mapping Lesson Plan

Snow Leopards Mapping Student Worksheet

Living among the mountains of the snow leopard: a lesson in ways of life

Grade level: 6 and above

Subjects:
Social studies, geography, economics

Time:
45 mins to 1 hour, with opportunity for written follow up.

Group size:
Suitable for pair or small group work

Goal:
To introduce information about the realities of living with a large predator; to learn about different ways of life in different snow leopard countries.

Overview:
This lesson is based around personal letters from people in different snow leopard countries. Students read the letters in groups/pairs and find specific information as well as similarities and differences. Photographs are also provided, so students have different sources of information.

Requirements:
A photocopier to copy the worksheets

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Life with Snow Leopards Lesson Plan

Life with Snow Leopards Readings

Life with Snow Leopards Photos

Life with Snow Leopards Student Worksheet

Life with Snow Leopards Answer Sheet