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1. McGraw-Hill Mathematics Kindergarten, Chapter 4: Lions, Tigers, and Zebras, Oh My!
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill Mathematics Return to McGraw-Hill Mathematics Web-Linked Lesson Plans Grade 0 book McGraw-Hill Math - Kindergarten Chapter 4: Patterns Theme: Going on a Safari Lions, Tigers, and Zebras, Oh My! Introduce Teach Close/Assess Check children's work. You may wish to have volunteers share their answers. Encourage children to share what they have learned about wild animals. Have children identify objects in the classroom, such as different colored crayons, that can be used to create patte...

2. Gould League - Food Webs - Secondary Activities
...k area you use the following information: The Chief will only allow zebra and wildebeest to be present in the park as food for the lions. Lions feed twice every 7 days. The lion pride is to be made up of 2 males and 8 females. There are to be no other large predators in the park. The grass that the zebras and wildebeest feed from is also eaten by a number of other animals such as termites and crickets, so each animal group only gets 5% of the available grass. Male lions weigh an average of 230kg and require a minimum of 20kg of meat a week to survive, while the lighter females (average weight of 150k...

3. Mini-Lesson: What, If Anything, Is A Zebra?
...e classified according to brain size, humans and dolphins would be classified as "________". Why? Why aren't they? 3. Why aren't children with Down's Syndrome considered to be more closely related to each other (due to many striking similarities) than to their parents? 4. How many living species of zebras are there?______ What are their common names? 5. The genus Equus includes zebras, ___________, ___________, and ____________ 6. What is "Cladistics"? 7. What is a clade? 8. What are "sister groups"? 9. What is OUR sister group? 10. What is a "cladogram"? 11. Why are orangutans, chimps, and gorillas...

4. Do Animals Play Hide and Seek?
...s/patterns on their fur, skin, etc. that help them match the elements in their environments. The use of these colors and patterns help the animals to hide and are called camouflage. 2. Identify some animals that use camouflage such as lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs, jaguars, giraffes, gazelles, and zebras. Materials: Fabric cut-outs of lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs, jaguars, giraffes, gazelles, & zebras (one set in natural colors, one set in unusual colors such as pink giraffe) Velcro to put on cut-outs Poster board with velcro to display 2 categories of animals Stickers of animals in natural colors...

5. Partners in Nature Partners in Nature
...at in nature, different kinds of animals or animals and plants help one another. 2. Discuss some examples with children, listing them on chart paper. For instance: + Egyptian plovers clean the teeth of Nile crocodiles and get a free meal. + Tick birds eat insects from the skin of cattle, elephants, zebras, rhinos, and hippos. + Many kinds of plant seeds hitchhike rides on the fur of passing animals so they can make plants in new places. + Honeyguide birds lead honey badgers to bee hives. The badger rips the hive open and both eat the honey. + Clown fish can safely hide among stinging sea anemones, wh...

6. Somewhere in Africa
...e Genre: Fiction Synopsis of Story: Ashraf is a little boy who lives in Africa. He lives in a city, so he has never seen a real zebra or lion. He walks on pavement, past shops, and crosses streets with blinking lights and lots of traffic. Ashraf loves living in Africa, in a big city where lions and zebras only exist in library books, and Ashraf's imagination. Standard 2: Reading: Comprehension 1.2.3 Respond to who, what , when, where ,why, and how questions and discuss the main idea of what is read Activity: After reading the book to the children ask them what comes to mind when they think of Africa....

7. Journey to a Wildlife Park
...arly Elementary Objective: Students will identify similarities and differences between Rehema's life and culture, and their own. Materials Needed: 1. The book, Rehema's Journey A Visit in Tanzania, by Barbara A. Margolies. 2. A map of Tanzania within Africa. 3. Various pictures of African wildlife: Zebras, Rhinoceroses, Hippopotamuses, Giraffes, Lions, Tigers, etc. Procedures: 1. Focus the students by telling them that they are going to be learning about a little girl about their age, named Rehema. Tell them that Rehema is much like them. She goes to school and learns math, reading, writing, and art....

8. Animal Camouflage
...nes of a moth shape and student supplied coloring utensils, Science For You (ITV show). Procedure: Discuss their prior knowledge of camouflage. Using a video is a great visual aid for specific examples of camouflage in our natural world. I use a "Science for You" (ITV show) segment called - "Why do zebras have stripes?" Based on how much prior knowledge they have, this introduction can be varied to fit individual needs. Show students the paper moth shape and explain they must cut it out and color it to blend in with an area in the room. Rules are it has to be easily visible from the center of the roo...

9. Urban
...s pictures of animals that use patterns to camouflage themselves. Beginning with the coral reef fish to connect with the pattern fish game, the teacher will point out the patterns on the fish and ask the class how they think the pattern helps the fish. This process repeats with a leopard, a herd of zebras, and a tiger hidden in grass. The teacher will help the students realize that animals have patterns to help them camouflage themselves. The reef fish blend in with the reef, the leopard hides from prey, the zebras blend together to look like a bigger animal or to match the plains grass (predators ar...

10. Zoo Tag
...r floor markings selection of cones Description of Idea Mark off the play area with four different locations to be for the different animals. Tell the children they can choose to be a zebra, kangaroo, antelope, or cheetah. Whatever animal they choose decides on how they should move during the game. Zebras gallop. Kangaroos jump. Antelopes skip. Cheetahs walk fast. Choose one or two children to be the zoo keeper whose job it is to round up the animals. If an animal is caught, they have to go to their appropriate space e.g. "cage" on the floor, all the while using the correct locomotor movement. To get...