Andros Iguana
Objectives: This education kit is designed to help students understand more about our endangered rock iguanas situation and what we can do about it.
Grade level: 5–7
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Links
- CRES Web site
- Northern Bahamas Iguana Project
- Caribbean Iguana Recovery Program
- Anegada Iguana Project
- Turks and Caicos Iguana Project
- Lesser Antilles Iguana Project
- Iguana Fact Sheet
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Andros Iguana
The Andros iguana Cyclura cychlura cychlura is the largest native land animal on Andros Island, Bahamas. Like many of its Caribbean rock iguana kin, this large lizard is endangered. The iguanas' primary threats are cats that eat juveniles, dogs that kill adults, and hogs that destroy the termite mounds that the females use as their nest.
To help teachers on Andros educate their students about the threats facing their native iguana, we developed a traveling iguana education kit. The kit comes with lesson plans and materials for three complementary lessons about iguana conservation. You can download the kit's lesson plans and activity sheets in PDF from this page.
Andros Iguana Kit Checklist and Background Information
Activity A: Where Have All the Iguanas Gone?
This activity helps students understand that native iguanas survive in just 40 percent of their original habitat.
- Habitat lesson
- Iguana Habitat master copy
- Threat Coverage 30%/70% clip art
- Threat Coverage 40%/60% clip art
- Threat Coverage 50%/50% clip art
Activity B: Iguana Bead Tagging
Students mimic scientists by using bead tags to help them identify individual iguanas for research over time.
Activity C: Make a Sign, Save an Iguana
Protecting iguanas from cats, dogs, pigs, and humans is a big job. This activity has students use their creativity to make signs that will work to educate people about the importance of protecting iguanas from humans and non-native animals.
