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Staten Island Zoo

The African Savanna

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Are you thinking about taking your class to the local zoo? Kids of all ages love visiting exotic animals in order to learn about biodiversity, habitat, and animal adaptations. Here is a 44-page activity guide that provides educators with...
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iPod Audio Tours

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students cooperate in small groups to create an audio tour of a zoo exhibit during a field trip. They record personal reactions, zoo sounds and information learned about the exhibit. They then edit the audio recording and add music to...
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Biome-Ecology Unit with a "Design a Zoo" Extension

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students participate in a three part unit about biomes. Part one, students research the biomes of North America and part two consists of research on zoos and a field trip to a zoo. While part three ties together the first two when...
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Animal Characteristics

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate the characteristics of animals by creating a chart. In this animal life lesson plan, students create a KWL chart listing all the different animals a class can name. Students take a field trip to a science facility to...
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A Zoo Book for All

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
A visit to the local zoo launches an integrated life science/ language arts research project into the habitat, feeding habits, offspring, lifespan, and other interesting facts about animals. Each group selects two animals to photograph...
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Hide and Seek

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore animal characteristics by creating a poster presentation in class. In this animal habitat lesson, students visit the local zoo and identify which habitats certain animals are most comfortable in. Students answer study...
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Natural Features of Our Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read about and discuss natural features of communities. They listen to a guest speaker, such as a park ranger to expand their knowledge of natural features. They go on a field trip, if possible, to a local zoo or...
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Creating slideshow using Real Slideshow 2.0.

For Teachers 5th
students gather information during field trip to the zoo. They use and present their findings of the types of birds, cats, primates, and other mammals to their teachers and classmates by producing a slide show using Real Slide Show 2.0.
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Animal Hide and Seek

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how animals use their colors to their advantage. They read the book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?," participate in a toothpick camouflaging demonstration, explore the Camouflage Field Book website,...
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Koala Bear Exhibit

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students visit the zoo and study the koala bears. In this habitat lesson, students take a field trip to the zoo and examine the habitat of the koala bears. Students watch videos about koalas and consider the needs of the koalas....
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African Animals in Habitats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate animal habitats in zoos. In this animal habitat lesson plan, students fill in a KWLH chart about zoos before looking at pictures of African animals in zoo habitats. They discuss what they see and take a field trip to...
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What Can You Learn About Dinosaurs by Watching an Ostrich?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students often find dinosaurs interesting. However, it is doubtful that they have actually thought about the process by which scientists (and film animators) develop working models of dinosaurs. Reproducible worksheets provide...
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Pigs: Facts And Fun

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a unit on pigs. They take a field trip to the fair and zoo, watch the video of "Charlotte's Web," create a poster, read and analyze "The Three Little Pigs," write a storybook, participate in a reader's theater, and make...
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Going Batty

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a research project involving bats. They collect information for their project on the Internet and other educational sites. They participate in a field trip to discover more about bats at the zoo.
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Endangered Species Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders gain a better understanding of endangered species. This lesson requires a field trip to the North Carolina Zoological park. At the park, 7th graders use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to identify and categorize the...
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Safari Sentence Scramble

For Teachers K
Students use real life experiences for writing. In this identifying details activity, students use information such as colors, numbers, sizes, shapes and locations to write sentences about the zoo. Students position the words from...
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Teaching about the Rainforest - Classroom Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are introduced to the tropical rainforest through different ways that catch their attention such as: Visit a local botanical garden or conservatory so that students can see the variety of tropical plants in the world. They...
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Our Desert Backyard

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make observations of their own backyard. In this environment activity, students keep records of the plants and animals they see in their home or school yard. Students make notes of how the weather and environment changes over...
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Classifying Vertebrates

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study animal characteristics and classification. In this animal characteristics and classifications lesson plan, 2nd graders determine how to classify vertebrates which include mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and...
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Listen and Draw

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and drawings. First, they listen to an adaptation of William Clark's description of the sage grouse. They form mental images that they translate into...
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Take A Walk On The Wildside

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study big cats in a variety of lessons included in this unit.
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Creating an Embossed Bird Design

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars research the role silver plays in the artwork of Mexico. They describe symbols used in Mexican artwork and create their own designs of birds in an embossed style.
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Pio, Pio, Que Frio

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners investigate the characteristics of living things. They determine that different organisms have different needs and describe and compare them. They draw and verbally respond about their favorite animal.
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Big Cat Classification

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover the different names and classifications of big cats by using word processing applications.  In this animal life lesson, 1st graders investigate one big cat and create a database of facts about it using an word...

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