March 2024

How Heavy is This Meerkat?

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STEM Activity
My Measurement Hunt!

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Skills Sheets

Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Students will identify ways in which zoo scientists use knowledge of an animal’s behavior to get its cooperation in being weighed. They will also learn that scientists collect data.

 

Reading Level:

Lexile: 520L; GRL: K

 

Next Generation Science Standards:

Practice 3: Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Practice 4: Analyzing and Interpreting Data

 

Vocabulary:

curious, patience, social, data

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