What are Invasive Species?

Learn about the Galapagos Islands and the importance of research and education.

Lesson steps

Start your lesson by asking the children if they have heard of the Galapagos Islands. Present the Amazing Galapagos Images presentation.

Amazing Galapagos Images

Amazing images of the Galapagos Islands!

Ask the children, why is it important to learn about the world?

Explain the Galápagos Islands are roughly 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador.

Ask the children to find the Galápagos Islands using a physical map and Google Maps. What surrounds The Galápagos Islands? Which type of map was more accessible? Why?

Galapagos Facts

Facts about animals and plants in the Galapagos Islands!

In pairs ask the children to generate questions, what would they like to find out about the Galápagos Islands? Present the Galapagos Facts presentation.

Life in the Galapagos

Learn about life in the Galapagos Islands!

Ask the children what the word endemic means. Record this in your classroom to use throughout the lesson.

The word endemic means being native to a specific location and found naturally nowhere else.

Ask the children if they have heard of Invasive Species. Present the Life in the Galapagos presentation.

In pairs, ask the children What could we do to solve the problems of invasive species?

Research The Galápagos Conservation Trust to find out how they are trying to solve the problems of invasive species.

Present the Restoration slide, whilst asking the class for one way people can protect the ecosystems on the Galapagos Islands.