This was the class description for this time:
Zookeeping 101
Students will tour the zoo including a walk through Peacock Alley by the back holding area of the Maned Wolf, Chacoan Peccaries, Hay barn, Dexter cow, Bison, Guinea hogs and Farmyard kitchen.
Educators will review classification and scientific nomenclature, discuss a zookeeper's job description and highlight how Zookeeping and Zoos have evolved over the years.
Hands-on project: students will create an information log of what they've seen and learned during today's visit.
It went pretty much as "advertised". The boys found it really cool that we got to go into the area which was closed to the public.
They were given a notebook (to share) to write down anything they thought was cool during the day. E had me write down several things for him. Like the fact that this zoo has the oldest living Andean Condor in the world, at 76 years old. And the bison at the zoo came from the Bronx Zoo. Also, the "poop pile" had to be written down, simply because of its name.
The class had three parts, as stated above. The first part was done as a large group. The kids toured the zoo, at a VERY fast pace. Wish I had skipped the treadmill this morning.
The second part, where they sat through a lecture (and got to touch a couple of animals), was done with 1st to 3rd graders separated from 4th and up. I volunteered to be a chaperone for E's group. Good thing they needed one, since he never would've participated without me. R said his group's lecture got boring and that he could see many of the kids zoning out. The young kids' educator was great though. She really kept the kids engaged, and had a lot of patience for the irrelevant story sharing that often goes on with younger kids.
After the lectures they brought all the kids together again. Not enough room to really do that though - they should have kept them separated. They all wrote down the better known animal classifications, i.e. mammal, bird, reptile, etc., then cut out photos to glue on that page. They didn't have enough photos of each thing for each of the kids. And they also didn't leave enough time. So we brought ours home to finish up. We'll do it tomorrow.
Our next zoo class is on October 18th and is about predators and their prey.
They were given a notebook (to share) to write down anything they thought was cool during the day. E had me write down several things for him. Like the fact that this zoo has the oldest living Andean Condor in the world, at 76 years old. And the bison at the zoo came from the Bronx Zoo. Also, the "poop pile" had to be written down, simply because of its name.
The class had three parts, as stated above. The first part was done as a large group. The kids toured the zoo, at a VERY fast pace. Wish I had skipped the treadmill this morning.
The second part, where they sat through a lecture (and got to touch a couple of animals), was done with 1st to 3rd graders separated from 4th and up. I volunteered to be a chaperone for E's group. Good thing they needed one, since he never would've participated without me. R said his group's lecture got boring and that he could see many of the kids zoning out. The young kids' educator was great though. She really kept the kids engaged, and had a lot of patience for the irrelevant story sharing that often goes on with younger kids.
After the lectures they brought all the kids together again. Not enough room to really do that though - they should have kept them separated. They all wrote down the better known animal classifications, i.e. mammal, bird, reptile, etc., then cut out photos to glue on that page. They didn't have enough photos of each thing for each of the kids. And they also didn't leave enough time. So we brought ours home to finish up. We'll do it tomorrow.
Our next zoo class is on October 18th and is about predators and their prey.
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