Thinkers Keys – Threatened
Species
The Reverse Key
The What If ? Key
The Disadvantage Key
The Combination Key
The Brick Wall Key
List the names of 10 different
animals that are NOT
endangered
What if there were no
introduced predators in
Australia?
What would be some
disadvantages of being a
threatened animal?
Combine the features of an
introduced animal and a
native animal. Draw the
animal and list its important
features
What are the alternatives to
keeping threatened animals in
zoos?
The BAR Key
The Variations Key
The Inventions Key
The Prediction Key
The Alternative Key
Threatened species enclosure
 make it bigger
 add something to it
 Replace something on it
Suggest ways to help
threatened species
Invent a way to protect the
last remaining orangutan by
using:
 a pack of cards
 a sewing machine
 a squash ball
Predict 5 Australian
animals that will be extinct
within 30 years.
List some ways to help
threatened species without
spending money
The Brainstorming
Key
Explain your changes and
draw a labelled diagram.
The Ridiculous Key
The Commonality Key
The Question Key
What would happen if every
threatened animal had to live
in zoos.
What do the World Wildlife
Fund (WWF) and zoos have in
common?
The answer is “EXTINCTION”.
The Interpretation Key
The Picture Key
There is a new law stating that
only native species are to be
kept as pets in Australia.
Work out what this picture
could have to do with
threatened species.
Explain why this is so.
Write 5 different questions.
The Forced Relationship
Key
How might a book, some
straws, a radio and a bottle
help save a threatened
animal?
Give a reason for each
answer.
Brainstorm some effects of
bringing two pandas to the
Adelaide Zoo
The Different Uses
Key
The Alphabet Key
Do an A-Z of threatened
species
(CLASS ACTIVITY – to be
.
completed when we have our
List many different uses for Alliteration poetry lesson on
a fossil of an extinct animal
threatened animals)