Format
1. Program begins with a discussion of various jobs throughout the zoo.
2. We then discuss what a person must do to get into a zoo job.
3. Will meet our animal ambassadors and discuss their physiology and needs. A scenario will be presented for each animal and we will discuss how to handle each scenario.
4. Open it up for a general discussion and questions.
Objectives
•List two jobs at a zoo other than the zoo keeper.
•Define the word “enrichment”.
•List two features an exhibit needs at a zoo.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
4-LS1-2.Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
MS-LS1-8.Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.
HS-LS2-8.Evaluate the evidence for the role of group behavior on individual and species’ chances to survive and reproduce.
MS-LS4-5.Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
3-LS1-1.Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
3-LS3-1.Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
HS-LS4-3.Apply concepts of statistics and probability to support explanations that organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to increase in proportion to organisms lacking this trait.