Animal Characteristics Graphing
Directions:
Describe body parts and physical characteristics of common animals, e.g., animals with fur, animals with feathers, animals with scales. Have your children name animals that have those characteristics and then graph them.
Zoo Food
Directions:
- Cut out pictures of different types of food that zoo animals eat (leaves, fruit, meat etc) and glue each one to a sheet of construction paper. Next find several zoo animals (pictures or plastic ones) and have the children place the zoo animal on the food that they eat.
Animal Memory
- Make two copies of several different zoo animals, cut them out and glue one animal onto each card. Turn the cards upside down and have your children play memory.
How Do We Compare To An Elephant
Directions:
- Cut an elephant shape form a sheet of bulletin board paper (a typical baby elephant is 3 feet tall.) Have your children estimate how much a baby elephant weighs (average 232). Weigh your children and add up theri weights to show them that they are each about the same height as an elephant, but all of them combined are close to an elephants weight.
Elephant Communication
Directions:
Elephants make different sounds to communicate, we can hear some and can not hear others. Some sounds can be heard up to 5 miles away. The sounds from their stomach like a growling noise signal everything is okay. Have your children come up with different ways to communicate without using words and communicate with one another. Continue this activity outside and encourage them to try to create loud sounds.