Zoo Enclosures

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Zoo Enclosures

• A unit in progress!

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Year level

• The year level this unit is being designed for is
  grade 1 or early junior primary levels

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Questions

• The questions I have added to my unit plan are
  very basic and definitely need to be reviewed. I
  found I have been working on the unit foundation
  predominately today.
• Essential Question
• Why do we have zoos?
• Unit Questions
• What different habitats do animals inhabit in the
  wild?
• What are living requirements of animals?
• Content Questions
• What needs does your research animal have?
• How will your enclosure meet these needs?

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21st century skills

• Learning and Innovation Skills
• Creativity and Innovation
• Demonstrating originality and inventiveness in
  work
• Developing, implementing and communicating new
  ideas to others
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Exercising sound reasoning in understanding
• Understanding the interconnections among systems
• Communication and Collaboration
• Articulating thoughts and ideas clearly and
  effectively through speaking and writing
• Assuming shared responsibility for collaborative
  work
• Information, Media and Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
• Accessing information efficiently and
  effectively, evaluating information critically
  and competently and using information accurately
  and creatively for the issue or problem at hand
• Media Literacy
• Examining how individuals interpret messages
  differently, how values and points of view are
  included or excluded and how media can influence
  beliefs and behaviors.
• ICT (Information, Communications and Technology)
  Literacy
• Using digital technology, communication tools
  and/or networks appropriately to access, manage,
  integrate, evaluate, and create information in
  order to function in a knowledge economy
• Life and Career Skills
• Flexibility and Adaptability