With prolonged road construction happening on Wells Street, we recommend beginning your Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo adventure on Sherman Boulevard until construction is finished.

Lesson Plans

Use these Lesson Plans before, during, or after your zoo field trip, or to supplement your classroom activities. Questions? Contact the Zoo Education Department at 260-427-6808 or by e-mail.

Thanks to students at Ball State University for their help developing these materials.

Lesson Plans: For Your Classroom

Click on a link below to download your lesson plan.

Pre-K

Alphabet Cards- African Journey

Alphabet Cards- Family Farm

Alphabet Cards-Indonesian Rainforest

Alphabet Cards- Australia Adventure

Alphabet Cards-Central Zoo

A Honey Bee’s Job

Kindergarten

Animal Art

Animal Authorities

Animal Count

Animal Parenting Skills

Are You Me

Butterfly Maze

Changing and Growing

Colobus Monkey

Crayon Rub

Create a Farm

Farming Charades

Keeping Penguins Dry

Mystery Animal

Rainbow Forest

Using Smell to Find Your Family

Zoo Scavenger Hunt

Third Grade

Grass Grass Everywhere

Great Barrier Reef

Guess the Animal

How Animals Move

Identify a Grass Plant

Insect Window Stickers

Journey to the Jungle

Kangaroo Tracks

Layers of Life Animal Chart

Lynx’s Behavior Bingo

Rain Forest Products

Reticulated Giraffe (Video)

Stories of the Sea

Swimming in the Sea

Take a Closer Look

The Kangaroo Hop

Tracking African Animals

Tracking Australian Animals

What Do You Think

Who Is in Great Danger

World’s Ocean

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Grow a Mini Savannah

Kangaroo’s Amazing Distance

Kangaroo Tracks

Layers of Life Animal Chart

Marine Animal Research

Observing African Animals

Observing Australian Animals

Ocean Animal Research

Ocean Food Chain

Orangutans Take Aim

Predators and Prey on the Savannah

Prey’s Technique to Survival

Primate Study Sheet

Quick Frozen Critters

Rain Forest Products

Sixth Grade

African Destination

African Monkey Business

African Journey Research

African Savannah Animal Research

Alike and Different

Be a Giraffe Watcher

Be a Giraffe Researcher

Be a Kangaroo Researcher

Create a Mini Grassland

Create a Mini Rain Forest

De Brazza’s vs Colobus Monkeys

Economics and the Environment

Extinction Is Forever

Fish for Dinner

Grow a Mini Savannah

Kangaroo’s Amazing Distance

Layers of Life Animal Chart

Marine Animal Research

Observing African Animals

Ocean Animal Research

Ocean Food Chain

Orangutans Take Aim

Predators and Prey on the Savannah

Prey’s Technique to Survival

Primate Study Sheet

Quick Frozen Critters

Rain Forest Products

Savannah Safari

Savannahs of the World

Sharks: Myth vs. Truths (video )

Sharks vs. Fish

Summing up the African Journey

Take a Closer Look

Tropical Rain Forest Animal Research

Web of Life Game

What Do You Think

What is Diversity

Who Is in Great Danger

Whose Side Are you On

Seventh Grade

Airplane Ticket

Be a Giraffe Researcher

Be a Kangaroo Researcher

Create a Mini Rain Forest

Grow a Mini Savannah

Predators and Prey of the Savannah

Whose Side Are you On

Eighth Grade

African Destination

African Savannah Animal Research

Be a Giraffe Researcher

Be a Kangaroo Researcher

Create a Mini Rain Forest

Extinction Is Forever

Fish for Dinner

Observing African Animals

Predators and Prey on the Savannah

Tropical Rain Forest Animal Research

What Do You Think

Whose Side Are you On

Ninth Grade & Above

Creature Feature

Fish for Dinner

Mammal Jeopardy

Name That Animal

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