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Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

 * 1) Plan strategies to guide inquiry
 * 2) Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
 * 3) Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
 * 4) Process data and report results

You've read the eBook Elephants Under Pressure and you've watched Assignment America.
 * 1) Which gave you more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society? Justify your answer with examples. **Elephants under pressure, because they talked about real statistics.**
 * 2) Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples**. Assignment America because it showed video of Bella and Tara hanging out, playing, and staying together the whole time.**

Watch the movie How Wolves Change Rivers.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video. **Wolves help change the rivers by killing the deer. Therefore the deer would stay away from certain areas and there would be less deer so more vegetation can grow.**
 * 2) Discuss how the photography and sound tract help to support the scientific information and help to develop a deeper understanding of factors that influence the ecology of the area. **The photography helped understand because the things the man was saying related to the pictures.**
 * 3) Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? Sustainable man created the video.

Read Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article.
 * 2) Compare and contrast the facts presented in the article with the facts presented in the video.
 * 3) Who wrote this article? What is the writer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write a prediction:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who created the message? Sustainable man
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the target audience? The people that want to learn more about the Yellow Stone Park
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What creative techniques are used to attract attention? The way the narrator speaks in the video.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">\
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How might different people understand this message differently?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why is this message being sent?