Weighing, Measuring, Estimating and Calculating at Miller Park Zoo
ZooLab Classroom:
Kinkajou: Each day the kinkajou eats 1 cup of omnivore chow, 1/2 a banana and 7 grapes. How many pounds of each food do we need per week?___________________________________
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Meerkats: Draw the shape of the meerkat exhibit. Measure the lengths of the sides and mark them on your diagram. How would you figure out the area?
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The bedding in that exhibit is crushed walnut shells.
It comes in 50 pound bags. If we want it to be 2
Inches deep in the exhibit, how many bags do we need?
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Rainforest Kitchen:
Bears: Weigh these foods:
Banana_______ Orange_______ Apple_______ 1 C grapes_____
1 C blueberries________ Sweet Potato_________ Carrot_________
How many pounds of fresh produce does each bear get each week?_____________________
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Sea Lion/Eagle:
How much food is in the sea lion bucket? Total #: ______ Mackerel #____ Herring #____
How many mackerel?______ How much does the average mackerel weigh? _________
How many herring?______ How much does the average herring weigh?________
Eagles (total for both): 5 days per week: 2 mackerel, 3 herring. 2 days/week: 4 rats
How many pounds of mackerel do we need in a year? How many pounds of herring? How many rats? _________________________________________________________________
Main classroom:
How much does the snake weigh? _____________ How long is it?___________________
Pick up the tortoise and then the rock. Which do you think weighs more?_______________
Now weigh them: tortoise____________ rock__________ Were you right?____________
Wolves: