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What is Gray Wolves, Gray Matter?

Gray Wolves, Gray Matter is a teaching tool that helps educators achieve a wide variety of science, social studies, and language arts learning objectives through the captivating and controversial subject of wolves.

Twenty seven fun and educational activities center around wolf management, illuminating such complex topics as depredation, shrinking wild lands, stakeholder interests, wildlife management practices, reintroduction and developing management plans using interactive, interdisciplinary teaching methods. Each lesson plan is easy to use with thorough background information and reproducible pages.

  • Developed for use in grades 4 - 12, but very applicable for adults, too.
  • Several student learning assessment tools provided.
  • Lessons cover science, social studies, language arts, math, economics, and geography.
  • Content was reviewed by wolf authorities L. David Mech, Senior Scientist with the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey and Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota, and Ed Bangs, Western Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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