Animal Behavior & Enrichment
- Grades: 5th-8th
- Time: 60 minutes
- Fee: $200 / $150 early bird
Zoos provide their animals with behavioral enrichments, such as new smells, toys, and foods, to enhance the animal's physical and mental well-being. In this program, your students will observe animal behavior both up close in the classroom and in the zoo and design, build, and help deliver their own enrichment items to one of our exhibit species. During this experience, your students will practice using ethogram charts to map changes in animal behavior. To receive the early bird price, you must visit before February 28, 2020.
This Program aligns with the following standards:
| Grade |
NYC Scope & Sequence | Next Generation Science Standards | NY State Common Core |
| 5th | Engineering Design | L.5.1, L.5.6, SL.5.1, SL.5.1.c | |
| 6th | Unit 3. Ecosystems | Structure, Function and Information Processing; Engineering Design | SL.6.1, SL.6.1.b, SL.6.1.c, 6.SP.B.5, 6.SP.B.5.A, 6.SP.B.5.B |
| 7th | Unit 3 Structures of Life | Structure, Function and Information Processing; Engineering Design | SL.7.1, SL.7.1.b, SL.7.1.c, 7.SP.A.1, 7.SP.A.2 |
| 8th | Structure, Function and Information Processing; Engineering Design | SL.8.1 | |
