Format
1. Introduction and welcome to the St. Louis Zoo distance learning program.
2. Discuss how our keepers and vets care for our animals.
3. Discuss how a keeper would determine if a vet needs to look at an animal.
4. Through the use of video clips and live animals demonstrate how our vets would anesthetize an animal for further observation and care.
5. Group activity - students will create medical equipment to fit the provided skull.
6. Groups will present their work.
7. Discuss how working with animals that live in social groups is very different than working with those that live individually.
8. Use video clips to show students a social animal and provide vet care scenario for students to problem solve.
9. Questions and conclusion.
* Questions are welcomed throughout the entire program.
Objectives
At the end of a program participants will be able to:
•Make a prediction, test it and explain the results
•Explain how Zoo animals get check-ups just like us
•Explain how vets do a few standard procedures like x-rays and anesthetic
•Explain how Zoo vets must problem solve and think creatively for many of their procedures.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NGSS: LS2.D; LS1.B; LS1.A; ETS1.B
State Standards
Missouri Science Grade Level Expectations:
III-1A (3) a, ID (5) a, 2C (5) a; VII-1A (3,4,5) a,b,1B (3,4) a,e, (5) a,f, 1C (3,4,5) a,b, 1D (3,4,5) a,1E (3,4,5) a