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How to Tame a Field Trip to the Zoo
Keep your pupils focused on field trip learning objectives with before, during, and after activities.
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Primate Weight
For this animal weight worksheet, students fill out the weights of an orangutan, gorilla, and monkey. They answer 7 word problems related to their weights.
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Preschool Coloring Sheet - Monkey
What a fun picture to color! This worksheet features a simple image of a cartoon monkey for preschoolers to enjoy coloring. The sight word monkey is included at the bottom of the page.
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Primates
Students explore different primates. In this primate lesson, students examine the various primates by engaging in crafts, dramatic play, singing songs, and games.
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Count and Add Money
In this number sentence worksheet, learners complete the number sentence for adding one money to another. Students complete the blanks for 1 number sentence.
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Word Maze: Mindy the Monkey
In this word search: Mindy the monkey learning exercise, 2nd graders read the paragraph, trace the text inside the maze then answer four questions about the monkey.
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Coloring page - Gorilla
In this coloring worksheet, learners color a gorilla. The coloring sheet brings opportunities to discuss the characteristics of these animals. Students may use this coloring sheet as a flashcard to learn about animals. They may write a...
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GUNS & 18th CENTURY NAVAL COMBAT
Students use a 4lb gun as a tool to show how difficult and dangerous it was aboard a revolutionary naval vessel. They are also shown the importance of how teamwork can help to complete a job safely and quickly. Students discuss the...
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Chinese Zodiac Animals
In this Chinese zodiac animals worksheet, students search 12 different animals in a word search. First, they identify the various types of Chinese zodiac animals. Then, students locate and circle each word in the word search puzzle.
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Mazes: Monkeys
In this mazes worksheet, pupils analyze the best strategy for helping a monkey find nuts for his dinner through a maze. Students share their route with their classmates.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Animales Africanos
Lots of colorful pictures illustrate African animals. Students can learn correct spelling and pronunciation by moving their mouse over each picture. Some pictures include the sound the animal makes, the name of the sound and the verb....
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Zoo Labs
Five inquiry-based investigations designed for the observation of primates in a zoo setting. The labs ask guiding questions and list notable primate behaviors.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Akira Grows Up
Meet Akira, a Japanese macaque. Learn how a zoo raised her from birth after her mother was unable to care for her until she was finally accepted by the other macaques. Includes audio narration in Spanish and English, with English text.
Globio
Glossopedia: Primates
Primates are a group of mammals that include apes, humans, monkeys, and prosimians. Primate characteristics and anatomy are explored, as well as life cycles, behavior and diet. Human impacts on other primate species have been...
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Orangutans
This multimedia site includes video and audio clips. The maps and fun facts will be very beneficial to students doing research projects.
PBS
Pbs: Nature: Clever Monkeys
There are many things about monkeys that humans are just beginning to understand, such as how they use plants to self-medicate, their emotional life, and how they use language even to communicate between monkey species. There are plenty...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Scopes Trial
This collection uses primary sources to explore the 1925 Scopes Trial.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: To Help the Monkey Cross the River
This poem explains how the monkey crosses a river without getting hurt.
University of Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Primate Research Center: Primate Info Net
Information about primates, includes links to primate centers and organizations. Find out about the International Directory of Primatology. Click into "Resources on Primatology" and then "About the Primates" to get to primate-specific...
Other
Vibrationdata.com: Animal Astronauts
Information about some of the early animal astronauts who were launched into space to help determine the effects of space travel on human beings.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Curious George
If you love Curious George, you will love this site. There are games, teacher lesson plans, and information about Curious George that you probably never knew before.
Regents of the University of Michigan
Animal Diversity Web: Chimpanzee
Comprehensive reference information about the chimpanzee. Includes taxonomic classification, specimens, and other details about this highly intelligent, vocal primate.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Monkey (Macaca Fascicularis)
View images and learn facts about Monkeys, including where they live, their appearance, behavior, and diet.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Pied Tamarin (Saguinus Bicolor)
Provides photographs and a fact card about the pied tamarin, an endangered species. Discusses where they are found, physical characteristics, behavior, diet, predators, reproduction and development, and population status.