NISD Outdoor Classroom

Texas Endangered Species

Through the use of activities, research, videos and computer software, students will gain an appreciation of wildlife as natural resources and understand their limitations.

They will grasp the significance of the Endangered Species Act and apply it to plants and wildlife native to Texas. Students will become

  • extremely familiar with Texas' endangered species
  • reasons for their population declines
  • and strategies to save them.
Participants of this unit of study will be provided with a packet containing background information on Texas Endangered Species, activities and additional resources.
They will also have the opportunity to check out a Texas Endangered Species Box containing supplemental items such as videos, software, books, activities and games.
 
Poetry on the Texas Blind Salamander
 

Links for Learning

General Links on Endangered Species
Texas Endangered Species Listings

EndangeredSpecie.com - The Rarest Info Around
Kids Corner, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Attwaters Prairie Chicken

Attwaters Prairie Chicken
US EPA - Endangered Species Picture Book
Attwater's Greater Prairie-Chicken, Links, Endangered Species: US Fish & Wildlife Service
January 2001 Bird of the Month - Attwater's Prairie-Chicken

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle
January Bird of the Month - American Bald Eagle
American Bald Eagle Information
Threatened and Endangered Species, Bald Eagle, US Fish & Wildlife Service

Black Footed Ferret

WGFD - Wild Times, April, 1997 - Black-Footed Ferret
Black-Footed Ferret -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
Black-footed Ferret

Black Capped Vireo Black Capped Vireo
http://enrp.tamu.edu/hot/endangered/part-3.8.html
Travis Audubon Society: Endangered Songbirds: Black-capped Vireo
Gray Wolf Gray Wolf - Keep The Wild Alive Campaign
Handbook of Texas Online: GRAY WOLF
USFWS: Learn More about the Gray Wolf
Golden Cheeked Warbler

Golden Cheeked Warbler
Golden Cheeked Warbler
The Aviary

Houston Toad

Houston Toad
Southwest Region Ecological Services
Bufo houstonensis

Jaguarundi Jaguarundi
http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/sa/jag/
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/agarman/bcoind.htm
Leon Springs Pupfish Texas - Leon Springs Pupfish - Cyprinodon Bovinus
Endangered Species Thinkquest
Ocelot http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/endang/animals/ocelot.htm
http://www.kenanderson.net/ocelots/
Red Cockaded Woodpecker
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/endang/birds/rcw.htm
http://www.flex.net/~lonestar/woodpecker.htm
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/ustudent/gcraft/fall96/scroggs/RCW/main.html
US EPA - Endangered Species Picture Book
Texas Blind Salamander



Texas Blind Salamander
http://www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us/hhs/endspeci/AMPHIBIANS/txsblnd.htm
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/biospeleology/tmolge.jpg

 

Texas Horned Lizard

Horned Lizard Conservation Society
Texas Horned Lizard
The Toad that's not a Frog
Welcome to the Texas Horned Lizard Watch Website
Passport to Texas - Rare and Endangered Species

Whooping Crane

Whooping Crane
The Magnificent Whooping Crane: Wildlife and Endangered Species Pages
February Bird of the Month: Whooping Crane