EDUCATION MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS
IEC Module for Primary Grades (1-2)
Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund
Philippine Eagle Foundation and Philippine Eagle Center
Malagos, Baguio District, 8000 Davao City
Tel. (082) 324 1860
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EDUCATION MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS
The Philippine Eagle and It’s Habitat
Environmental or conservation education for elementary students aims to develop awareness
about the importance of the Philippine Eagle including its habitat and other wildlife, also the
pressures or factors influencing the loss or decrease of their population. Conducting information
education campaign is a vital activity for conservation. With varying level of development and
understanding of students in primary level strategically outlined information aligned to its
objectives is required, which is to:
1. Introduce the Philippine Eagle (basic characteristics, features, and its significance) and its
home – the tropical rainforest.
2. Explain the interrelatedness of the forest and the Philippine Eagle.
3. Make the students understand the threats of the forest and the Philippine Eagle.
Using basic materials such as PowerPoint presentations and short video documentaries,
Grade 1 and 2 pupils will meet the Philippine Eagle. The discussion will have to be animated,
clear, and pitched enough to catch the attention of the pupils in a way that they can easily
understand the connection to the next significant topic discussion about the eagle. Also, the
topics are organized in the same manner it is outlined in the basic curriculum of schools.
The Body Parts
They will come to know the basic features of the eagle corresponded with each important
functions which includes its height, crest that stands when the eagle feel threatened or an enemy
is around them, sharp eyes that can see more than 8 times the ability of human to help the eagle
search for prey or food, strong beaks to tear food or meat, big talons to hold the catch food while
at flight, and the wide width of its wing for flying high.
Key Messages and Argument
 The eagle is introduced to students that alike them have functional parts of the body.
Values Integration/Formation
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The Family
An eagle pair lays only 1 egg every 2 years, a time enough for the parent eagle to care, feed
and guide the young until it learns to fly and eventually live on its own. Similarly, the students’
parents take care of them since they were babies until the stage that they attend to school.
Key Messages and Argument
 The Philippine eagle family is simply like their own family, with responsible parents
taking care of them.
The Home
Rainforest as the home of the eagle frequently rains many plants and animals lived in the
forest together with the Philippine eagle. The forest a place even these children lived together or
share to animals as a home and a source of food and living. The Philippine eagle as an endemic
bird to the Philippines, its only inhabited forest home is this country. It lives nowhere else in the
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world except in the islands of Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao in the Philippines, the same
place the students live in. Definitely it is a Filipino considered as the national bird of Philippines,
which is unfortunately in a critically endangered state.
Key Messages and Argument
 It is a Filipino as we are, a national icon such as national heroes like Jose Rizal, known
for its magnificent characteristics.
Threatened Home and Inhabitants
Everybody’s home is in danger. The forest, plants, and animals are being destroyed by people.
Trees are being cut and forests are burned that cause detrimental effect to both wildlife and
human. The effect can be worsened when natural calamities strike or sometimes the destruction
of the forest is the reason why calamities came. Drought, landslide and flooding are the result of
forest destruction by humans, this may also be because of other forms of environmental damage
such as air and water pollution. This entirety threatens the Philippine eagle, and aside from all of
that they are being hunted and killed, thus accelerating the extinction of the eagle.
Key Messages and Argument
 The children must be able to grasps the awareness that a very important icon of their
country that possesses prideful traits is near to its extinction, simply not an icon, a
Filipino resident like them.
 Not only the eagle are losing its home but also the people, them.
What to do?
Since the information recipients are very young students, basic conservation and protection
methods can be taught. Children can help save and protect the Philippine eagle and the
rainforests through sharing to others even their parents what they learned, they can plant trees,
simply throw garbage in the trash cans, and follow the law. In that way they can be friends to the
Philippine eagle.
Key Messages and Argument
 Conserving and protecting the environment can be achieved by everyone, even young
children.
Activity
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For at least 30 mins the students will be guided through the Activity Book.
Will also allow them to play using clays and other educational materials
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