All About The Zoo

Below you will find lessons, ideas, books, interactive zoo pages, zoo products, activity sheets and much more!

Live Cams - Before you head to the zoo with your class, give them a sneak peak of some of the animals you may see there!

Great Books
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Great Craft Ideas For Your Unit	African Animal Giants - A National Geographic Action Book (A National Geographic Action Book)
Dear Zoo Click here for a lesson that goes with the book!	Sam Who Never Forgets Click here for some great ideas to use with this book!
Baboon Click here for some great ideas that match this book!
African Animals by Caroline Arnold	Africa Calling - Nighttime Falling by Dan Adlerman
Alphabestiary - Animal Poems from A to Z	The Encyclopedia of Awesome Animals
Rumble in the Jungle IDEA: Read and discuss this book about wild animals. The pages describe the characteristics of each animal. As a class, brainstorm/write a list of descriptive words for some of the animals (hippopatomus, giraffe, lion, chimpanzee, etc.) . Students may then use these lists to illustrate and fill in the blanks in their own "Jungle" *booklet:* "The lion ___________." "The gorilla ___________." "The rhinoceros ___________." "The snake ___________." *etc.*	Giraffes Can't Dance
Good Night, Gorilla	Zoo Do's and Don'ts IDEA: Before going to the zoo and after reading this book: Follow the cues from the book, each table of students creates its own "Zoo Do's & Don'ts" list. Once they've finalized the lists, they transfer them to posterboard, complete with illustrations. What a great review before your trip!
My Visit to the Zoo AN IDEA: *After reading this book, make predictions about what YOUR visit to the zoo will be like, filling in the blanks on a predictable chart: Maybe we will see a _______. Or maybe we will see a _______. Maybe we will see a _______. Or maybe we will see a ______.	If Anything Ever Goes Wrong at the Zoo An Idea Students love this silly tale about a little girl who gives an open invitation to the zoo animals "if anything ever goes wrong at the zoo." After reading and discussing the story, students write their own invitations to the zoo, explaining how they could take care of certain animals (the monkeys, because they have a banana tree in the back yard, etc.) : Dear Zookeeper, If anything ever goes wrong at the zoo, You can send me the ____________ because I have ___________________ . Love, ____________

Animal Guessing Game (Gr. 2+) To play this game you have to think of a type of animal. The web page will try to guess the animal by asking you Yes or No questions.

Animal Quizzes Who am I?

Animal Tracks (Gr. 2-8) Mathc the track with the animal which made them.

Animal Tracks Kids Page (Gr. 3+) Games, tour, Ranger Rick and more.

Animal Trivia Game (Gr. 4+) This Trivia game will call on your knowledge of animals.

Cyber Tiger (Gr. 4+) Your zoo is about to receive its first-ever Siberian tiger and you are the zookeeper (from National Geographic).

Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! A webquest about bears.

Who Am I? Animal Puzzles.

Year for the Tiger Make a Tiger, Slideshow, Why Do They Roar, and a Quiz.

Wild Arctic Activities Puzzles, games, and mazes.

Wildlife Quiz (Gr. 4+)

Zooboomafoo (PBS) Games include Mystery Animal, Snack Machine, Finding Mommy, etc.

Activities to Print

Math Ideas:
*estimate plastic animals.
*estimate how many animal crackers in a box, then sort and
graph them
*sort animal pictures by number of feet (4 feet, 2 feet, 0 feet).
* sort then create an AB pattern of wild and domestic animals.
* graph favorite animals.
*graph whether or not they've ever been to the zoo.
* sort animal pictures by what they eat (herbivore, carnivore,
omnivore).
*count plastic zoo animals and create different sets of numbers using two types of animals.
*Use strawberry baskets to count animals. They look like cages and the kids think it is cute. Teacher can guide kids to count, "Put one monkey in the cage...."Put two tigers in the cage.....add another tiger...How many do you have now? It is easy to pass out the counting sets animals are in the baskets and each child can count to see what 5 animals are in his/her cage.

Things to Write About Before or After You Go to The Zoo _ A few days before your trip to the zoo, have your students make a journal entry.

What animals live in the zoo? Describe them in sentences; then illustrate them.

If you were a zoo-keeper, how would you start you day? Which animals would be your favorites?

Which zoo animals are herbivores? Carnivores? How do you know?

Draw yourself at the zoo. Write about the animals you want to visit first.

Draw some zoo animals in their natural habitat. Which ones live in the jungle? The desert? In swamps? Etc.

Draw a picture of two different animals in a cage. Would these animals get along if they were really in the same cage? Write a story about your picture.

Here is a writing sheet to print!

5 Zoo Bulletin Boards	Cooking ideas
Zoo Activities Galore	Animal Populations: A Play
How Do Polar Bears Stay Warm?	At the Zoo Thematic Unit
What Is at the Zoo? - Lesson Plans	Amazing Animals (Grades K - 5) Lesson Plan. Students explore websites about animals and create an "Amazing Animal" quiz.
Zoo Animal Facts Lesson	What Am I Lesson

Animal Picture Archive	The Electronic Zoo
Official Zoo Home Pages	Zoo in the Wild

View-Master 3D Reels: Sesame St. Zoo	Zoo Building Set
FELTKids At the Zoo	Sea Monkeys Ocean Zoo
Day at the Zoo ~ VHS ~	At the Zoo: Picture This! Sing-A-Long ~ VHS
Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom -- Brutal Truth; Audio CD

Animal Masks PBS — Zoboomafoo: Eye Spy (Popper the Tiger)	Animal Masks PBS — Zoboomafoo: Eye Spy (Muscles the Bear)
Animal Masks PBS — Zoboomafoo: Eye Spy (Moonface the Barn Owl)	Zoo Math Animals at the Zoo Activity Sheet
Connect the Dots PBS — Zoboomafoo:Connect the dots (Penguin)	Connect the Dots PBS — Zoboomafoo:Connect the dots (Squid)
Zoo Animal Mobiles Keep the Wild Alive! — National Wildlife Federation	Wild Jigsaw Puzzles Wild Ideas
Animals at the Zoo Activity Sheet
Test students' knowledge about zoo and aquarium animals. Zoo and Aquarium Animals Grades 1-2 (PDF file) Zoo and Aquarium Animals Answer Key (PDF file) http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/april/pdf/quiz_1-2_zoo_key.pdf	Have students find words related to Aquariums and Zoos hidden in a puzzle. Aquariums and Zoos (easy) (PDF file)Aquariums and Zoos Answer Key (easy) (PDF file)
Animal Coloring	The First Zoo Coloring Book
Fun With Zoo Animals Stencils (Dover Little Activity Books)	Fun With Zoo Animals Stencils (Dover Little Activity Books)
The Little Zoo Animal Stained Glass Coloring Book	Little Zoo Animals Coloring Book
Zoo (Hidden Pictures Coloring Books) ~	Animal Tracks
Animal Group Names	Color Adaptation
Help Save the Animals	Hibernation
Animal Bookmarks - I	Animal Bookmarks - II
Zoo Worksheets

Birmingham Zoo	The Electronic Zoo
Official Zoo Home Pages