ZOO ANIMALS SCIENCE ACTIVITIES AND LESSON PLANS FOR KINDERGARTEN

Engage your students on a week long scientific exploration of zoo animals! Your little learners will have such a fun time studying zoo animals and their habitats.

Your learners will study and explore everything there is to know about animals in the zoo. They will learn about zoo keepers, zoo animals and the habitats zoos offer.

Use the detailed lesson plans and suggested read alouds to help guide your instruction! The whole group activities are a great way to tie in literacy and science. Use the literacy and math centers during your small group teaching time.

What's Included:

Whole Group Lessons: This unit includes five days of whole group activities that build on each other. Start with learning about the jobs of a veterinarian and zoo keeper. Next, your learners will study and explore the different habitats found in a zoo as well as animal adaptations. Students will love the part where they get to research their favorite animal! This is also a great time to schedule a field trip to the zoo!

Suggested Reading List: An amazing list of Zoo themed picture books will help guide your instruction. Links to purchase books are included.

Thematic Reader: Spark a love for reading and enhance literacy skills with our thematic reader focused on how animals move. Through simple sentences and illustrations, students will focus on fluency and word recognition skills.

Interactive Poem: Foster creativity and language development with our interactive poem centered around zoo animals. Students will participate in reciting and acting out the poem, reinforcing vocabulary related to insects.

Math and Literacy Centers: Reinforce key math and literacy concepts with our engaging centers tailored to the theme of the zoo. From measuring the height of animals to weighing them to sight words and syllables, these centers provide hands-on learning experiences that support academic growth and development.

Benefits:

1. Comprehensive Learning Experience: The unit provides a well-rounded approach to science education, covering new knowledge on zoo animals, their habitats and how zoo keepers take care of them.

2. Promotion of Curiosity and Inquiry: By digging into the subject of animals, the unit sparks curiosity and encourages inquiry-based learning. Students are motivated to ask questions, make observations, and seek answers, fostering a sense of wonder and exploration in the classroom.

3. Making Real World Connections: Through exposure to age-appropriate science content and vocabulary, students make real world connections from an early age.

Buy the BUNDLE and SAVE! You can purchase this resources in the Thematic Activities for Little Learners Bundle and the Little Learners Mega-Bundle!

What Other Teachers Are Saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I absolutely LOVED this resource! I "tested" it out this summer with my own kids, and they thought that the items were so much fun, especially the puzzles and math activities! My classroom theme is chalkboard jungle, and this thematic bundle was simply the best purchase I've made this year! Thank you :)"-Katie M.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Perfect for leading up to our zoo field trip! " -Kinsey C.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "These have been great activities to go along with our classroom zoo theme!" -Jenny Z.

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