Zoo Theme Ideas

A to Z Stuff: Zoo - http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/zoo.html Activities, art, snacks, games

Activity Idea Place: Zoo - http://www.123child.com/animals/zoo.html Activities, art, center ideas, poems, games

Color the Animals - http://colortheanimals.com/ Printable pages

Danielle’s Place: African Animals -
http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/africanAnimals.html African animal crafts
http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/animal_crafts.html animal crafts

Early Childhood Thematic Units: Zoo - http://www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/sbcss/specialeducation/ecthematic/zoo/ Resources for an integrated unit

Enchanted Learning: Zoo Book - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/animals/zoo/ An emergent printable book

Little Giraffe’s: Zoo - http://www.littlegiraffes.com/zoo.html Integrating ideas

Mrs. Pohlmeyer’s Class: Zoo Animals - http://www.mrspohlmeyerskinderpage.com/zoo.htm Excellent ideas for an integrated unit! Unbelievable page!

Carol's Favorite - 2005

Preschool Zoo Theme - http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/zoo/index.htm Resources for an integrated unit

Teaching Heart: All About the Zoo - http://www.teachingheart.net/zoo.htm Links to lessons, zoos, animal graphics, book lists, online activities, printables

Zoo Animals - http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/zooanim.html Links and online activities

Zoo Schools and Telecollaborative Projects

Calgary: http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/ict/2learn/mmspeight/zooschool/zooschool/index.htm Excellent web site with project ideas, links, examples, games

Zoo Animals - http://www.zooschool.ecsd.net/ A Zoo School adventure and telecollaborative project

Zoo Pages - http://webinstituteforteachers.org/~martin/wit2002/zoopg.htm online learning

Research Ideas

Exploring the Animal Kingdom - http://www.nashville-schools.davidson.k12.tn.us/webquests/HarpethValley.htm A web quest to classify animals

San Francisco Zoo: http://www.sfzoo.org/ Great list of animals for research and a kids section with games and activities.

Saving Wildlife - http://www.wcs.org/7490/kidsgowild/ Looks at conservation of endangered animals

Sea World/Busch Gardens: http://www.seaworld.org/ Shamu is the guide to kids' exploration of animals and games.

Sound Safaris - http://www.wildsanctuary.com/safari.html Travel around the world to hear exotic animals

Sounds of the World’s Animals -http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html  Some audio files; also animal expressions in different languages around the world

Virtual Safari - http://www.period.com/safari/ Great for young researchers

Whose Eye is it Anyway? http://www.ebiomedia.com/gall/eyes/eye2.html Students can click on an eye to find out about the animal

Zoobooks Magazine: World’s First Virtual Zoo - http://www.zoobooks.com/newFrontPage/animals/virtualZoo/petme.html Like a “petting zoo” where children can select an animal and do research, listen to sounds, play games

Virtual Zoos

Australia's Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary: http://www.koala.net/ This is an excellent resource for studying Australian animals. Once you go into the Education section, the Kids Corner and Wildlife Fact Sheets are wonderful. They also feature two web cams - kangaroo and koala.

Auckland Zoo - http://www.zoorainforest.co.nz/index.php Take a virtual tour

Belize Zoo - http://www.belizezoo.org/zoo/zoo.html Specializing in tapirs

Big Zoo - http://www.thebigzoo.com/default.asp Research animals or take a tour

Brevard Zoo: http://www.brevardzoo.org/ Take the panoramic virtual tour. You'll be right in Florida watching from the live cams!

Chaffee Zoo: http://www.chaffeezoo.org/ This zoo is inn Fresno, California and the site offers good research facts on the animals.

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo: http://www.cmzoo.org/ This zoo is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the site has an incredible resource on giraffes, including photos of a baby giraffe's birthing, and a giraffe web cam.

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo: http://www.lpzoo.com/ A good tour of the animals with information.

Cincinnati Zoo: http://www.cincyzoo.org/  This web site on the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio, has good information for research, especially about the relationship between plant life and animal life.

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo: http://clemetzoo.com/ This site offers a few unique items, including a fun and games section with a "Test Your Knowledge" quiz. The animal facts are quick to load and have concise information that is easy to read for young researchers.

Cool Cosmos: Infrared Zoo -  http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/ This is so modern! Thermal images of many animals – warm and cold-blooded; lesson plans, research, games

Electronic Zoo: http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm A place to search and explore online.

ExZOOberance - http://www.exzooberance.com/ Animal pictures and facts

Folsom Children's Zoo & Botanical Gardens: http://www.lincolnzoo.org/   This zoo is located in Nebraska. The interesting sections for this web site are the quick time movie videos of unique animals including a mother sloth and her new baby. There is also an "Ask the Zookeeper" section that features a current question and archives to former questions from children visiting the zoo.

Fort Wayne's Children's Zoo: http://www.kidszoo.com/ The best feature of this web site is the quick research facts to animals.

Minnesota Apple Valley Zoo: http://www.mnzoo.com/ This site offers 3 web cams, animal information and a kids corner.

National Zoo at the Smithsonian: http://natzoo.si.edu/ A most amazing site with web cams, information and incredible photos.

San Diego Zoo - http://www.sandiegozoo.com Live webcams of some animals, videos and good descriptions of a variety of animals

Toronto Zoo: http://www.torontozoo.com/  Visit the different pavilions; lots of video and photos.

Utah's Hogle Zoo: http://www.xmission.com/~hoglezoo/ This web site has an amazing data bank of animal photos and information.

Zoo Links Pages

Gander Academy - http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/zoos.htm Links to zoos, debate sites about ethics of zoos

It’s a Zoo Out There - http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr233.shtml Links to zoos

Netox: Animals - http://www.netrox.net/~labush/animals.htm Lots of links categorized. Worth a browse!

NetVet Electronic Zoo - http://netvet.wustl.edu/zoo.htm Links to zoos

Virtual Zoo: http://www.lawrencegoetz.com/zoo/ A homemade zoo page.

WWW Virtual Library - http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html Tons of links to zoos

Online Games

Animal Discover: Games - http://animal.discovery.com/games/games.html Several choices

Animals Are Lost: Bring Them Home - http://aldertrootes.wcpss.net/farmanimalsa.html A webquest for younger students

Animals of the World - http://www.kidscom.com/games/animal/animal.html An educational game

Classifying Critters - http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/critters/critters.html An educational teaching site

Kratt’s Creatures - http://www.pbs.org/kratts/ Interactive site

PBS Nature: Puzzles and Fun - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/fun.html Lots of games and puzzle choices

Switcheroo Zoo: http://www.switcheroozoo.com/  A place for kids to create their own animals by switching head, feet and tails.

Zoboomafoo - http://pbskids.org/zoboo/ Interactive site