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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**//

//**Create a wiki page called ElephantsWolvescodename. Copy the information below, then paste to your page. Complete the work.**//

//**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. Elephant under pressures give more informations. The book talk about the elephants and how the elphants work. Assignment America only talks about the frindship of an elephant and a dog. **//
 * 2) //**Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples. Assignment America gives more information about the animals relationship. The relationship of a dog and an elephant is very rare but you can see the feelings of those two. **//

Watch the movie How Wolves Change Rivers.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video. The wolves have not been seen for more than 700 years. They finally came to Yellowstone National Park. The wolves change the whole park by changing the rivers. All the other endanger animals came and they are so much that they are not endanger anymore. The wolves change the river in order to help gro the trees for more food.
 * 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. They make the movie more real like you are in the movie. They are trying to pursuade us to help these animals and to spread the word.
 * 3) Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information?

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?

Write a prediction:
 * 1) How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer.

Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand


 * 1) Who created the message?
 * 2) What is the target audience?
 * 3) What creative techniques are used to attract attention?
 * 4) How might different people understand this message differently?
 * 5) What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
 * 6) Why is this message being sent?

> How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer. When elephant is migrating, they have to live in a place where they are protected and have enough supply for food. When they migrate to a place where they are in danger, it will ruin the environment. Yellowstone is a place that elephant could live peace. Asia is very dangerous becuase proachers are there to steal its trunks.
 * 1) Apply what you have learned about the Yellowstone environment to the environment in Asia where the elephants live. Write a prediction:
 * 1) Compare and contrast the facts presented in the Yellowstone video with the facts presented in the Yellowstone news article. The video tell that the wovles change the Yellowstone and the article saying it is true and false which is much confusing.

Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand

 * 1) Who created a message? The people who help Yellowstone.
 * 2) What is the target audience? Us or the people.
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? The sounds and the pictures.
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently? They think this has nothing to do with them.
 * 5) Why is a message being sent? To help the park and to show why we need to help the enviroment.