2. Objectives
Identify types of endangered
wolves
Importance of protecting and
respecting wolves in their
natural habitat
Brainstorm ideas on how to
prevent wolves from
becoming extinct
3. Artist
Geoffrey William Backhouse
Born in North Wales in November
1903
Expertise was in Drawing Animals
in Nature
4. Read Students the book the Three Little Pigs by
Golden Books
Ask:
What would the story be like if the wolf was no longer
one of the characters?
Would the fairytale still exist without the wolf?
5. What is the wolf portrayed
as in this painting?
How is the wolf portrayed
in the Three Little Pigs?
6. Does this
painting show the
wolf in a different
way?
This is a better representation of the wolves today
because both the Grey and Red Wolves are
endangered in the United States.
7. Materials
Black, Red, Gray, and Pink Construction Paper
Scissors
Glue Stick
Marker
Toilet Paper Roll
Ruler
Pencil
8. Independent Activity
Toilet Paper Roll Wolf Procedure:
Choose what color wolf you want to make, grey or red.
Cut out pieces that model the ones taped up on the board
in the right color construction paper
Make the ears and face
Glue the snout and glue construction paper around the
toilet paper roll
Glue the mouth to the snout and then to the toilet paper
roll
Glue on the ears
Make the eyes and write the best way to save the wolves!
9.
10. Evaluation
Informal: Were the students able to brainstorm
ideas on how to prevent the Red and Grey Wolf
from becoming extinct?
Formal:
Meets Criteria with Satisfactorily Meets Improvement is Comments
Excellence Criteria Needed to Meet
Criteria
Wolf Type Used the right colored Used the right colored Did not attempt to
construction paper construction paper make a Red or Grey
throughout their throughout most of Wolf. Used different
project to show that their wolf. May have colored construction
their wolf was either a used one other color paper throughout.
Red or Grey Wolf. once but can tell which
wolf they intended to
build.
Ideas Expressed Wrote on the side of Wrote something on Either did not write
their wolf something the side of their wolf anything or wrote
that would protect the about wolves but not something that had
species from about how to save nothing to do with
becoming extinct. them. wolves on their wolf.
Quality Project is done neatly Project is done neatly Project is sloppy and
and all the parts of the and only one mistake numerous parts of the
project are placed in while assembling their wolf are not placed in
the correct places. wolf. the correct place.
