Pre-Kindergarten to Kindergarten
Experience stories about the variety of animals that live in our backyards and beyond!
The Owls, Bats, Backyard Animals, Amphibians and Bears Topics address the following standards:
Life Sciences
Benchmark B
Explain how organisms function and interact with their physical environment.
Kindergarten Indicator
6. Investigate the habitats of many different kinds of local plants and animals and some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and each other in our community.
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Benchmark B
Recognize the importance of respect for all living things.
Kindergarten Indicator
3. Interact with living things and the environment in ways that promote respect.
The Farm Animals, Mammals, and Pets topics address the following standards:
Life Sciences
Benchmark A
Discover that there are living things, non-living things and pretend things, and describe the basic needs of living things (organisms).
Kindergarten Indicator
2. Discover that stories (e.g., cartoons, movies, comics) sometimes give plants and animals characteristics they really do not have (e.g., talking flowers).
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Benchmark B
Recognize the importance of respect for all living things.
Kindergarten Indicator
3. Interact with living things and the environment in ways that promote respect.
Call (614) 724-3602 or email habitathollow@columbuszoo.org to register. Three week advance reservation required.