In this video, fifth-grade students learn about the differences between Asian and African Elephants and how elephants make a dramatic impact on their ecosystems. After learning about Elephants as “landscape architects,” the You at the Zoo student team follows the inquiry process to investigate the different tasks of elephant’s trunks.
Diversity and Interdependence of Life
6. Analyze how all organisms, including humans, cause changes in their ecosystems and how these changes can be beneficial, neutral or detrimental (e.g., beaver ponds, earthworm burrows, grasshoppers eating plants, people planting and cutting trees and people introducing a new species).