Zoo Class: Adaptation

Once a month Blazer has been taking a science class for homeschoolers at the zoo. This month’s theme was on Adaptation.

The zoo does such a fantastic job of being interesting & engaging for a wide variety of ages. They use a large screen and remote controls to ask questions and then the kids get to vote on their answer.

Here they are voting on what item the student volunteer should adapt.

After the 30 minute interactive lecture, the instructor brought out some animals for the kids to pet.

First the alligator

Racer went right up to pet it, Blazer wouldn't.

Blazer trying to be camouflaged.

Next, she brought out an armadillo.

Blazer had no problem petting the armadillo.

After the animal visits, we did an exploration on which adaptation birds would need in order to eat. They had set up 8 different table with 3 different tools at each station and then the child would pick the best tool & then see which bird’s beak was most similar to that tool.

Blazer using tweezers to pick rice up off a log.

Once all the activities were done, they went as a class over to visit the rhino’s and elephants. The animals were being cleaned when we first arrived, but we got to see them back in time to eat.

The zookeeper put out the fruit before letting the elephants back in.

The zoo does such a fantastic job on their educational programs! I can’t wait to go to next months.

 

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