Zoo School 2016 "The BiG Zoo Experience"
3rd grade students from Ms. Kane's class attended Potter Park Zoo School for one week, learning about specific animals through observation, sketching, writing and research. Students learned to sketch animals in art class before attending the zoo. Students kept detailed notebooks throughout the week and brought those notebooks to art. We put what they learned at zoo school to work by creating "Animal Vessels" in clay and "Animal Masks" . The students will use their animal masks in computer class to video record "animal interviews" demonstrating what they learned about their animals.
Animal Vessels
Animal Sketching
Animal Masks
Animal Facts & QR Codes
In technology Ms. Kane's class typed out three facts they learned during their observations of their animal at Potter Park Zoo. Students then recorded themselves reading their facts. They took their recordings and turned them into QR codes. Once their QR code is scanned you can listen to the student talking about their animal.
Visual Art Standards: ART. VA. I.3.1, ART. V.4.3