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Recommended for: Grades 6-12

Resource: Grassland Elephants

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Media Type:
QuickTime Video

Length: 2m 00s
Size: 5.3 MB

For nearly two decades, Martyn Colbeck, an award-winning filmmaker, has documented the life of Echo, a matriarchal grassland elephant of Kenya. Echo and her closely knit family have grown to accept Colbeck into their world, allowing him to record the interactions among them that bond them together. This video segment from Nature shows a greeting ceremony and the introduction of a new calf to the family. Through Colbeck’s eyes the audience can begin to understand the family ties among elephants as well as their playfulness and means of communication. For more about elephants see two video segments in the series of three, "Forest Elephants" and "Desert Elephants."

Teachers' Domain, Grassland Elephants, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.visual.grassland/

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The following suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or science lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

Frame (ELA) How can a cinematographer, writer or reporter influence the perspective or opinion of an audience of readers, listeners or viewers on a topic?

Focus (ELA) Describe the way this video makes you feel about elephants.

Frame (SCI) What characteristics have you inherited from your parents? What characteristics have you learned as a result of living day to day in your environment?

Focus (SCI) How would you characterize the elephants in this family?