EDUCATION MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS
IEC for Elementary Grades (3-4)
Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund
Philippine Eagle Foundation and Philippine Eagle Center
Malagos, Baguio District, 8000 Davao City
Tel. (082)271-2337, Fax (082)301
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This module is intended for Elementary Grades 3 and 4 students. Lectures are in the form of
multimedia presentations (PPT and video documentaries). This will involve participatory
learning and interactive teachings that will emphasize life science concepts to provide students
with information on environment and wildlife conservation that will hopefully lead to the change
in the student’s attitude from apathy to care and concern for the environment.
The content of this module will be aligned to the new adapted curriculum implemented to
schools in the Philippines, especially in the area of science that this IEC topic is related to. Based
on a K to 12 toolkit science curriculum is learner-centered and inquiry-based applicable to all
levels, when the teacher build explanations it will emphasize the use of evidence (SEAMEOINNOTECH, 2012).
Reaching out to schools and community of the nesting sites through Information Education
Campaign to conserve the Philippine eagle and its rainforest habitat is a component and objective
of the Philippine Eagle Conservation project. This initiative is to spread awareness and
encourage conservation efforts to areas where the campaign will reach, it aims to integrate more
student-led conservation activities in the education modules for schools campaign.
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INFORMATION EDUCATION CAMPAIGN
Objectives for Grade 3 & 4 IEC:
1. Introduce the Philippine Eagle – its biology and ecology, so the students will have clear
recognition and perception about the eagle. Thus, answering the question, “Why do we
need to save the Philippine Eagles?”
2. Discuss briefly the forest and its significance, as being related to the Philippine Eagle and
to human. This will clarify “Why do we need to conserve and protect our forests?”
3. Develop the concept of carrying capacity in simple manner and terms by describing the
effect of forest degradation animal and human population, by which they will be able to
figure out what this question is trying to answer, “What are the consequences if the
Philippine Eagles become extinct and the forests destroyed?”
4. Provide updates on current environmental issues currently happening around the country,
so the students will develop simple solutions on this question, “What can or should we do
to help save and protect the Philippine Eagle and the rainforests?”
The Philippine Eagle
 National bird
o Endemic in the Philippines (only in the islands of Luzon, Samar, Leyte and
Mindanao)
o Critically endangered
 Biology
o stands one meter tall, with 2m wing spans
o have massive arch beak and sharp talons
o takes a while to reach reproductive maturity
o monogamous - keeps one mate for life
o breeding cycle: September to February in Mindanao
o lays one egg every after 2 years
o egg laying and incubation
o Nestling and post fledging.
o very territorial; juveniles disperse away from parent territory to find their own
o habitat requirement for a pair of Philippine Eagle: 7000-13000 hectares of forests
for a territory
o prey items
 Feeds on 17 vertebrate prey species
- Mammals: flying lemur, palm civet, flying squirrel, bat, monkey, large
rat and deer
- Birds: Rufus hornbill, small-sized hawk and owl
- Reptiles: Phil. Cobra, pit viper, and monitor lizard
Tropical rainforests
 characterized by frequent rainfall
 rich in biodiversity
 benefits provided
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Survival of the Fittest
 Carrying capacity - refers to how many organisms can live sustainably in a particular
environment without destroying its resources.
- Food or water supply, amount of shelter, capacity to absorb wastes,
predation, and many others can be the limiting factors that determine the carrying
capacity of a certain habitat.
- If the Philippine eagles become extinct and the forests destroyed,
there is something wrong in our ecosystem and it will definitely affect all other animal
species and including us human beings.
Example: Philippine eagle population and Philippine forest
Threats to Philippine Eagles
1) Deforestation
2) Hunting/shooting limits wild population of eagles.
3) Others:
a) Pollution – basic pollution: water, air and soil pollution with corresponding example
and direct effect
b) Global Warming – the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth cause by
pollution and etc.
So what if the Philippine Eagles get extinct and the forests destroyed?
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Rainforest as mega-diversity mall
- The forests are as important to us as they are to the Philippine Eagles.
Importance:
- one fourth to one half of all drug store medicines originally came from tropical
rainforests.
- Tree benefits
Leaves
Medicine
Rubber/gum
Bubble gum, tire, rubber shoes
Tree chemicals
Socks, film, paint, firecrackers
Pulpwood
Fuel
Fruits, nuts and flowers
Perfume, food
Fibers, inner bark
Rope, bag, textile
Trunk, branches and smaller branches
Slippers, shoes, handicrafts, paper
products, furniture
Bark
Soap, crayon
Roots
Tool handles
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Forests also provide other ecological services:
- serve as watersheds
- prevent erosions, landslides, as well as sea and river siltation
- protect coral reefs
What we can do to help?
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Obey the wildlife rule: “Don’t touch, don’t catch, just watch”.
Reduce, reuse recycle.
Plant trees.
Share what you know.
Be a friend of the Philippine Eagle and the wildlife.
Wildlife Act
- Republic Act 9147 (Important and basic rules)
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Games
I. Philippine Eagle Challenge! (for Grades 3-6)
Theme: Philippine Eagle diet, threats, and pledge to protect
Activity Objective
 Identify and name the different prey items of the Philippine Eagle
 Recognize activities that threatens the Philippine Eagle and its habitat
 Make the students pledge to protect and conserve the environment and all
other living species with it
 Develop the student’s coordination between visual and motor control as well
as the child’s imaginative thinking in terms of pictures and images.
Subject Matter
 Prey items of the Philippine Eagle
 Threats to the Philippine Eagle
- Deforestation – (a) land clearing to prepare for livestock grazing or expansion of crop
planting, (b) commercial logging and timber harvests, (c) slash-and-burn forest
cutting for subsistence farming, and (d) natural events such as volcanic eruption,
stand wind throw from typhoons, catastrophic forest fires, or changes in local climate
and rainfall regimes.
- Hunting – (a.) using guns and traps that hunters used in wild boars
- Pollution – (a) air pollution – stationary sources: smoke stacks of power plants,
manufacturing facilities (factories) and waste incinerators, as well as furnaces and
other types of fuel-burning heating devices; mobile sources: motor vehicles, marine
vessels, and aircraft; military resources: nuclear weapons, toxic gases, germ
warfare and rocketry; natural sources: dust, smoke from wildfires, volcanic activity
(b) soil contamination – accidental spills, acid rain, intensive farming, genetically
modified plants, nuclear wastes, industrial accidents, landfill and illegal dumping,
agricultural practices, such as application of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers,
mining and other industries, oil and fuel dumping, buried wastes, disposal of coal ash,
drainage of contaminated surface water into the soil, discharging urine and faeces in
the open, electronic waste (c) water pollution – (point sources) sewage treatment
plant, factory, sewer systems, industrial or construction stormwater, domestic sewage,
industrial wastewater, agricultural wastewater, point source wastewater treatment,
urban runoff
Materials
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Philippine Eagle mask (4 sets)
Philippine Eagle wings (4 sets)
4 sacks
4 coconut shell kadang kadang pair
4 basket or boxes
10 cans
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Mechanics
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Flash cards with pictures and names of different prey items of the Philippine
Eagle and other animals
Flash cards with pictures of the threats to the Philippine Eagle
A pledge to protect and conserve the environment
Each group (maximum of 10 persons per group) will form one straight line.
A sack will be given in each group, then basket or boxes containing flash
cards are placed in front each of the lines/groups in a certain distance along
with a pair of coconut shell kadang-kadang.
Another basket or box of flash cards with images of the threats to the
Philippine Eagle and an empty basket or box will be place in a certain
distance, along with a single slipper.
At the farther end of the lines/groups a can will stand.
The first student in the line wears the Philippine Eagle mask and wings then
hops wearing the sack until he/she reaches the basket or box with flash cards
of prey and choose one.
Using the coconut shell kadang-kadang placed near the basket or box of prey
items that student will walk towards the basket or box with flash cards of
Philippine Eagle threats and pick one.
The student will also have to place the previous flash cards in the empty
basket or box.
The single slipper must be thrown so that can standing in a farther distance
will fall.
Once the can falls he/she will return to the line and let the second student do
the same, one after another until the last person on the line take its turn and
will throw the slipper to turn down the can, this time the can contains a pledge
to protect the Philippine Eagle and conserve the environment.
The game ends in the event the group finishes reciting the pledge in unison.
After the game, the facilitator will check all the collected prey items in each
group and will score them as follows: correct- (1), wrong (-1) (right minus
wrong). The group with the highest score wins.
Evaluation and Comprehension Check
 What are the prey items of the Philippine Eagle?
 What are the threats of the Philippine Eagle population?
 What can you do to help protect the Philippine Eagle and its habitat?
 What can you say about the Philippine Eagle?
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