Describe body parts and physical characteristics of common animals, e.g., animals with fur, animals with feathers, animals with scales. Have your children name animals that have those characteristics and then graph them. Find Several different Types of Food that Zoo animals eat (leaves, fruit, etc.) Next find several zoo animals (pictures or plastic ones) and have the children match the zoo animals up.Create a course similar to the ones Monkeys have at the zoo use branches for the children to climb over and under. Let them climb across the monkey bars, while making monkey sounds, and climb a vine (a hanging rope) Get a life size penguin from your local school supply store and measure the kids against it to see if they are as tall as a penguin Supply children with 3 bowls filled with grass, hay and water. Give children many different types of zoo animals (pictures or plastic ones). Have them place each animal where they think they would most likely find them living in. If you have a window in your classroom set up an observatory next to it. Place binoculars and bird, insect, and animal books next to the window so that your students can view real birds. See if you can see any of the animals that they have at the zoo! Put an Aquarium in your room full of fish. Children love to watch the fish swim around. Hint: Don't use ocean animals as they are much harder to take care of. Find Several different Types of Food that Elephants eat (leaves, fruit, hay, peanuts, etc.) Measure the weight and heighth of each of your children Then tell them how much a baby elephant weighs, tell them it would take the whole class to weigh as much as a baby elephant Make a circus ring and several elephant cut outs. Put some of the elephant cut outs in the ring. Then ask your children "How many elephants are inside the circus ring?" Then remove some of the Elephants and ask your children "How many of the elephants stayed inside (or left) the ring?" Everything Preschool >> Themes  >> Zoo >> Science