This teaching guide and education booklet was created by San Diego Zoo Global for use by schools and wildlife clubs to teach students about the saiga antelope.

What features define an animal? Do we associate particular characteristics with a species or a group of species?

Saiga Day was celebrated simultaneously in three countries - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kalmykia (the Russian Federation) for the first time in 2011.

This activity enables students to understand the importance of ecological services the natural environment provides and the need to preserve it.

This activity brings together different elements of the curriculum to produce an information leaflet.

This game demonstrates how energy is passed along a food chain. It involves running about with cups of water, so a large outdoor space is required.

This game demonstrates the importance of wetlands and the need for their conservation.

This activity enables students to understand the importance of ecological services the natural environment provides and the need to preserve it.

This game demonstrates the greenhouse effect by showing how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere traps some of the sun's heat, insulates the Earth and allows life to survive.

This activity will show you where in the world our clothes, food and other things come from.

This exercise introduces different value systems and ecosystem services.

This exercise challenges students to learn about historic changes in their own communities by asking older community members about changes within their lifetime and them mapping the results.

An activity to get children thinking about environmental legislation.

Design cartoons that illustrate energy-saving ideas or subjects related to energy use.

How do your students use energy in their homes?

This activity is designed to get students to think about not using non-renewable resources for one day.

A study investigation for students to learn more about the species in their area.

What is biodiversity? What does biodiversity mean to the students in your class?

This activity gets students to think about the impact of the arrival of the first humans on the steppes.

This activity gets students to think about the larger scale impacts of human activities.

This activity explores the different types of links found in nature.

This activity encourages students to think about recycling and ways of reducing waste.

This activity introduces the idea of competition between the needs of wildlife and humans.

This activity encourages students to consider their own water consumption and the water consumption of their household.

These activities encourage students to consider the impacts of development and explore the concept of sustainable development.

An activity that encourages students to discuss what factors affect saiga numbers and how saiga can be conserved.

Saiga conservationists in Uzbekistan have been using cartoons to promote environmental conservation amongst school children.