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Switcheroo Zoo

Visitors to this unique zoo make their own new creatures by switching the animals' heads, legs and tails. While students play, they can read facts about each of the animals that comprise their new beast. Make your own new animals by playing animal games, solve animal puzzles, take a guided tour and join a zoo quest.

Listen to music by the Switch Zoo Critter Chorus, watch a dog's dream, and uncover the Mystery of Switch zoo.

Build an online habitat. Students match animals to the environment best suited for their survival.

Feeding Time at Switcheroo. Your students will have fun learning about carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, and scavengers with three games based on animals' diets.

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Curriculum Information For Resource

Snapshot
Grade Level(s):Pre-K, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Curriculum Areas:Science
Themes/Keywords: Animals
Diets
Games
Zoos


Vocabulary
habitat, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, diet, adaptation, survival, scavenger, environment, characteristics, endangered, species, nature,


Essential Question(s)
1. What is an animal?

Discussion Question(s)
1. How do animals survive?
2. What do animals eat?
3. What is a habitat?

Extension and Activities
1. Language Arts: Create and name an animal. Interview this animal. Present your animal to your partner and answer questions.
2. Science: Create an animal. Make a diorama of the habitat for your animal.
3. Mathematics: Chart the eating preferences for the animals created by your class. Then graphically show the habitats of the animals created.
4. Performing Arts: Write/perform a conversation between 2-3 animals on the topic of -
5. primary level - Where they sleep and what they eat.
6. intermediate level - How climate change makes a difference in their lives.
7. advanced level - Predicting what adaptations would be necessary to move to a new habitat.


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pictureBernice Stafford
Educational Consultant
CILC - Carlsbad, California






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