Teacher Guide: Lesson 14.3
The Weekly Reader Connections feature on Kids' Place Houghton Mifflin Math provides your students with additional information about the topics that appear in the Curriculum Connection feature in their student books.
The article “Protecting the Tiger” exposes students to the reality of the endangered tiger becoming extinct in the future. Many of the problems threatening tigers were caused by humans when they moved into the tigers' habitat and built on the land leaving the tigers and the animals they preyed on with less land on which to live. People also have hunted the tigers' prey, and have killed tigers for their skins and for their bones, which can be used to make medicines.
Additional Information
- The tiger is the largest member of the cat family.
- Tigers are found in the wild only in Asia.
- Depending on the subspecies, an adult male tiger can weigh from about 220 to 675 pounds and can be from 7 to 10 feet long.
- Depending on the subspecies, an adult female tiger, or tigress, can weigh from about 165 to 365 pounds and be from 7 to 9 feet long.
- Tigers prefer to hunt large prey, including deer and antelope. But they also hunt smaller prey, including monkeys and porcupines.
- Tigers usually hunt at night.
- A tiger can leap about 30 feet.
- Tigers are good swimmers. They can also climb trees.
- In the wild, a tiger can live up to 20 years.
- Tigers have territories that range from 25 to 250 square miles.
The Word Wise activity asks students to make a word web for the word “habitat”.
The Data Hunt asks students to convert measurements, using the information that a Siberian tiger is 9 feet long.
- How many inches long is the tiger? (108 inches)
- How many yards long is it? (3 yards)
- About how many meters long is it? (9 feet × 0.3048 = 2.7 meters, or about 3 meters)