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Unit Plan
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Multiplication Strategies - A Day at the Zoo

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
This is an amazing 33-page resource for teaching multiplication! Your mathematicians will discover the connection between multiplication and repeated addition. They also will work collaboratively with arrays while studying zoo animals....
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We're Counting At The Zoo!

For Teachers K
Budding mathematicians use sets of concrete materials to represent, count, and match quantities to 10 or more given in verbal or written form while participating in hands-on activities. This lesson uses the book 1, 2, 3 To The Zoo.
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The Animals

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a virtual field trip to the San Diego Zoo and complete various computer lab excercises to expand their understanding.
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Printables
PreKinders

Feed the Giraffe Mats

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Keep your giraffes well fed with a play dough mat. Kids observe the number at the top of each page, and then create leaves out of play dough to feed the giraffe.
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Worksheet
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Max's Math Adventures

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these shape activity worksheets, students read the poem about shapes and then draw and write about one of the zoo animals from the zoo. Students use the given shapes to put their animal together. Students add hair, eye color, and...
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"ART ZOO 'Blacks in the Westward Movement', 'What Can You Do with a Portrait', and 'Of Beetles, Worms, and Leaves of Grass'"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners study black history, examine portraits and portrait making and create their own portraits, and  investigate their natural environment. This humanities lesson provides a text that can be used to teach lessons in black...
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Can I have a Pet?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read the book Can I have a Pet?, by Gwendolyn Hudson Hooks. They determine which animals the main character asked to have as a pet, explain why zoo animals do not make good pets, and study the pictures to make predictions.
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Worksheet
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The Centimeter Zoo

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this measuring distance worksheet, students use a centimeter ruler to measure the distance between the dots for the animals in the zoo.
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Lesson Plan
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Here Comes Winter!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate winter behaviors in animals. They describe winter and write about the characteristics of the season by drawing and labeling a winter picture. Students then conduct research on a chosen animal and create a chart. ...
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Four Animal Legs at Sunset

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the book, 1, 2, 3, To The Zoo, and focus on the one-to-one correspondence while counting the animals and other objects in the story. They create page number four in their number books.
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Morning Work

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete their morning work. In this math and editing lesson, 1st graders complete addition and subtraction problems, edit sentences and share their answers. Students can also create math problems of their own.
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Number Sense Sampler

For Teachers 1st
First graders illustrate a math problem with counters while reading story books, such as Margie Burton's "Add the Animals". They demonstrate a positive learning attitude toward mathematics and communicate clearly in oral, artistic,...
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Lesson Plan
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Fish Counting Nursery Rhyme

For Teachers Pre-K
Students experience The Fish Counting Rhyme. In this counting lesson, students practice counting while listening to The Fish Counting Rhyme.
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Number Sense Sampler

For Teachers 1st
First graders read a variety of stories containing mathematical word problems. They illustrate the math problems with manipulable counters.