NYS standards:  MST #4
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.  

Key Idea #6.  Plants and animals depend on each other and their physical environment. 
Performance Indicator 6.1:  Describe the flow of energy and matter through food chanins and food webs.

ELA Standard #1:  Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding.  As listeners  relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced text.   As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Lesson Plan:
1.  Lesson begins with a lottery.  Teacher fills a hat or can with names of animals that live in the Ngorongoro.  See website for names of animals.

2.  Each student researches what the animal eats, what eats it, and how the animal's lifestyle determines what the animal eats.

3.  What has the government doe to reduce poaching?

4.  How does the burning of the trees in the Ngorongoro affect the Maasai and the animals?

5.  How does tourism affect the Maasai?

Assessment:  Rubric on mini-reports.  Teacher may also grade stamp sheet based on accuracy.

Ngorongoro Animal Reports

Ngorongoro Food Web

Ngorongoro Food Web Stamps