MadagascarActivities

Early Elementary Show students a picture of only the continent of Africa. Have them point out Madagascar on this map. Pull down the world map in the classroom and have the students point out Africa and Madagascar on the world map.

Upper Elementary "Leaping Lemurs...How far can you jump?!"
 * This activity was created by PBS from a clip they have about lemurs in Madagascar. The website says that a lemur can jump 25 feet in one leap!!
 * For the activity, take the students outside and have them work in pairs. They will need appropriate measuring materials to measure each others leaps.
 * The first student will jump with the second student measuring from the starting point to where the student landed. The first student will record their data in a chart.
 * After each pair of students has done three trials of their leaps, they can then find the mean (or average) of the length of their jump and compare it to the length of the lemur's jump.
 * This full lesson plan is available [|here.]



Fine Arts Malagasy Habitat
 * Bring in nature magazines and National Geographic magazines and have students cut out pictures that they think would go in a collage about Madagascar. Have the students compliment these pictures by making some of their own drawings.
 * This activity may require some research about the plants and animals found in Madagascar.

Madagascar: A World Apart. (n.d.). PBS. Retrieved December 12, 2010, from www.pbs.org/edens/madagascar/class1.htm


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