Week Overview

Daily Schedule Subject to Change

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

Monday

• Question of the Day: 
  
  • AM: Why do mountain and desert animals look the way that they do?
  • PM: Can you build a desert (or mountain) home that works for both a human and an animal?
• Zoo Exploration: Camels and Wild Horses, look for desert animal adaptations
  
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge: 
  • Campers build a mountain or desert home that works for themselves and an animal
  • What kind of home did you build? How did you test it?
• Further Exploration: Sheep Mountain or Grizzly Bears, look for mountain animal adaptations.

Tuesday

• Question of the Day:
  • AM: What is the Arctic (and Antarctic), and how do animals survive there?
  • PM: Can you build a home out of ice that is big enough for you to fit inside?  Can you build a home for penguins or sea lions?
• Zoo Exploration: Northern Shores, look for Arctic adaptations
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Campers design a home out of ice that is stable and large enough for them to fit inside
  • What did you create? Could you fit in it?
• Further Exploration: “Antarctic” animals – Penguin Exhibits

Wednesday

• Question of the Day: How could you change a penguin so it could survive in the Savanna? OR How could you change a lion so it could live in the Antarctic?
• Zoo Exploration: Predator Ridge, Grassland animals
  
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Campers design a new version of a penguin or a lion to allow it to survive in either the Savanna or the Antarctic
  • Which animal did you choose? What did you give it to help it survive?
• Further Exploration: Pachyderms and Kudus, Bongos, Addax, or Zebras and Giraffes. 

Thursday

• Question of the Day:
  • AM: What are the features of a rainforest animal’s home?
  • PM: Can you design something to wear which would keep you warm and dry in a rainforest?
• Zoo Exploration: Primates, Elephants, or Tropical Discovery, look for rainforest features.
  
• Animal Experience: Who did I meet today?
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Campers design something (they can wear) which would keep themselves warm and dry in a rainforest
  • What did you design? What was it made out of?
• Further Exploration: Primates, Elephants, or Tropical Discovery (whichever not seen in AM), look for rainforest features.

Friday

• Question of the Day:
  • AM:  What does a “Colorado” home look like, and which animals live in Colorado?
  • PM: What zoo animals are similar or different, compared to Colorado animals?
• Zoo Exploration: Bald Eagles, Sheep Mountain, or Grizzly Bears, Nature Play Spaces.
• Engineering Challenge:
  • Campers build a “Colorado” habitat scene, and then change it into one that works for an animal analog from a different habitat
  • What did you create? How did you change it for a different animal? What animal was the habitat for?
• Further Exploration: Bald Eagles, Sheep Mountain, or Grizzly Bears, whichever was not see in AM, and also look for Geese, Rabbits, Squirrels, and wild Birds along the way.

**City Park Fountains!