Grade Two through Grade 12
This program is the perfect companion to a visit with the Zoo’s endangered West Indian manatees at our Manatee Coast exhibit. During this program students will learn about the world of manatees.
Standards Addressed by this Topic:
Earth and Space Sciences
Benchmark C (3-5)
Describe Earth's resources including rocks, soil, water, air, animals and plants and the ways in which they can be conserved.
Grade Five Indicator
5. Explain how the supply of many non-renewable resources is limited and can be extended through reducing, reusing and recycling but cannot be extended indefinitely.
Life Sciences
Benchmark B (K-2)
Explain how organisms function and interact with their physical environment.
Grade Two Indicator
3. Explain why organisms can survive only in environments that meet their needs.
Benchmark B (3-5)
Analyze plant and animal structures and functions needed for survival and describe the flow of energy through a system that all organisms use to survive.
Grade Three Indicator
2. Relate animal structures to their specific survival functions.
Benchmark C (3-5)
Compare changes in an organism's ecosystem/habitat that affect its survival.
Grade Three Indicator
6. Describe how changes in an organism's habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful.
Grade Five Indicators
4. Summarize that organisms can survive only in ecosystems in which their needs can be met (e.g., food, water, shelter, air, carrying capacity and waste disposal). The world has different ecosystems and distinct ecosystems support the lives of different types of organisms.
5. Support how an organism's patterns of behavior are related to the nature of that organism's ecosystem, including the kinds and numbers of other organisms present, the availability of food and resources, and the changing physical characteristics of the ecosystem.
Benchmark B (6-8)
Describe the characteristics of an organism in terms of a combination of inherited traits and recognize reproduction as a characteristic of living organisms essential to the continuation of the species.
Grade Six Indicator
4. Recognize that an individual organism does not live forever; therefore reproduction is necessary for the continuation of every species and traits are passed on to the next generation through reproduction.
Call (614) 645-3410 to register. Three week advance reservation required.