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Explore- Outdoors Lesson Plan

Fieldtrip to the Detroit Zoo!
Grade: 4th Grade
ISTE Standards:
1.A Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
1.C Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify
students conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
2.A Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and
resources to promote student learning and creativity.
Objectives:
Students will be able to identify the animals based on the 5 different animal groups.
Students will be able to describe characteristics about what makes certain animals a
part of each group.
Students will be able to discuss 3 new things they learned about animals from today.

Materials:
Notebook
Writing Utencil
Computer
Projector
5 Posters
Markers

Lesson: Before leaving for the zoo, as a class we will review our objectives so that
students are aware of what is expected of them. Then we will go through the
PowerPoint that will be projected up onto the screen for the whole class to see. It
will review the 5 animal groups we have been discussing and the characteristics
that differentiate them.
Any Questions??

As we wonder throughout the zoo, students are to write down facts about animals
that they found interesting or did not know before.
After we get back from the zoo, we will go through a PowerPoint of pictures of all of
the animals the students saw today and the students will share out what group the
animal belongs to.
Students will then have a chance to share out their facts by writing them on the
different posters making sure their fact is belonging to the right group of animal.
After the posters are completed, we will read over them as a class so that students
can hear all the new things that were learned today.
Rationale: Students will be able to take what we have been learning in the
classroom and understand it form a different perspective by actually getting to see
the animals and their characteristics in person. They will also be able to reflect and
discuss with their peers new things that they learned through the sharing of them
on the posters.

Accommodations for Students with Mobility or other Challenges:
Wheelchairs and/or strollers will be available at the zoo entrance if needed
Parent Volunteers and School para-pros will be available to attend on the trip.