Teacher's Note - Objective: search for
and collect information about the rare life on earth
Activity:
Climb aboard the greatest
digital ARK ever built.
What is ARKive?
ARKive will be the world's electronic library
of films, photographs and sounds of the endangered species and
habitats on our planet. Using the internet you will be able to
see clips of film and photographs and find information about
the rare animals, plants, insects and all the other amazing creatures
that live in our world.
Why do we need an ARKive?
We need ARKive because these images and recordings
may soon be all we have left of many of the world's species,
but they are spread around the world in many separate collections.
That is why ARKive will permanently preserve these images and
sounds in one place, so that anyone can look at them. Sadly many
creatures and plants are becoming very rare and ARKive hopes
to keep a record forever of life on our planet to ensure that
children now and in years to come will be able to see and hear
what these creature were like.
ARKive will let us learn more about them on
the Internet through many exciting activities specially designed
for children. These will teach us about the importance of biodiversity,
conservation and what we can do to help protect and conserve
living things and their habitats.
ARKive is being created by the
Wildscreen Trust, who run the world's biggest competition
for wildlife film-makers - called the WILDSCREEN Festival.
How do I use ARKive?
- Go to the ARKive
web site (at www.arkive.org.uk)
- Select / click-on 'Kids/schools' from the
menu bar
- Then select 'Children's page' which will
give you three options.
- Here select 'The Search Engine' to find out
information about the species and habitats (the other two options
are still under construction).
- Once in the search engine click on the 'List
All' button. This will show all the species that are currently
available on ARKive (and is quicker than typing in a search
as it may not be there yet!).
All the full-length films and photographs
as well as books about wildlife film-making will be stored at
ARKive's headquarters
in Bristol, in the United Kingdom, where people can come
and view the whole collection.
