Week Overview

Daily Schedule Subject to Change

**Ask your camper the questions below to learn about their day!

Monday

• Question of the Day:
  • AM: What makes an animal a mammal?
  • PM: Can you design a habitat or exhibit that different mammals can share?
• Zoo Exploration: Zebras, Giraffes, Tigers, Grizzly Bears, look for mammalian features
  
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge: 
  • Campers design a habitat for multiple mammals
  • What did you design? Which animals did you make a habitat for?
• Further Exploration: Predator Ridge and Kangaroos, Bongos, Kudu, Okapi, look for more mammalian traits

Tuesday

• Question of the Day:
  • AM: What makes an amphibian different from a reptile?
  • PM: Can you build a habitat/exhibit that will keep an amphibian OR a reptile healthy? 
• Zoo Exploration: Tropical Discovery, compare and contrast reptile and amphibian adaptations
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Campers design a reptile that has a pattern to help it camouflage in a certain habitat
  • Campers also design a habitat for a reptile OR an amphibian
  • What did your reptile look like? What do reptiles need in their habitats?  Amphibians?
• Further Exploration: Water play!

Wednesday

• Question of the Day:
  • If you were designing a brand-new SUPER mammal, what would it need? 
• Zoo Exploration: Toyota Elephant Passage
  
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Campers design a new SUPER mammal
  • What features did you add? Why was it a SUPER mammal?
• Further Exploration: Visit Primate Panorama or Pachyderms, Monkey Island, Sheep Mountain, look for “super” mammalian traits

Thursday

• Question of the Day:
  • AM: What makes an animal an insect?
  • PM: Can you create paper butterflies that have the perfect camouflage to hide in the room or specific area of the zoo?
• Zoo Exploration: Primate Panorama, Nature Play Spaces to find insects
  
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Campers create camouflaged paper butterflies for instructors or admin to find!
  • What did you create? How did you help it camouflage?
• Further Exploration: Camper's choice - where did we go?

Friday

• Question of the Day:
  • AM: What makes an animal a bird?
  • PM: Why do birds have different types of beaks?  And, can you design the strongest bird bone?
• Zoo Exploration: Outdoor Bird Exhibits (Vultures, Eagles, Condors, Nurture Trail, or Cassowary), look for bird features and beaks
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Stations: Beak design, bone design, and what do we know and wonder?
  • What kind of beak did you design? How did you reinforce the hollow bones? What did you wonder?
• Further Exploration: Additional Outdoor Bird Exhibits (Penguins, Flamingos, Hornbills, or Emu), look for different types of wings and feathers, or more beak types