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Sharks at Stingray Bay - A Touching Experience Teacher Activity Guide

This activity guide will introduce your students to the exciting world of sharks and stingrays. Included in this activity guide are fact sheets on the cownose and southern stingrays, nurse and bamboo sharks, and exciting lesson plans that can be used along with your visit to Sharks at Stingray Bay - A Touching Experience.

Sharks at Stingray Bay - A Touching Experience Teacher Activity Guide

Self-guided Tours

These self-guided tours will help you use the Zoo exhibits to teach many important concepts in the Life Systems strand of the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training science curriculum for elementary grades.

Grade 1 - Characteristics & Needs of Living Things (PDF)
Grade 2 - Growth & Change in Animals (PDF)
Grade 3 - Plant and Animal Interactions (PDF)
Grade 4 - Animal Habitats & Communities (PDF)
Grade 5 - Animal Digestive Systems (PDF)
Grade 6 - Climate Change and Biodiversity (PDF)
Grade 7 - Interactions Within Ecosystems (PDF)

Brochures

Informative brochures answer the most commonly asked Zoo questions.

Zoos and Conservation (DOC)
Zoo Careers (DOC)
Why Zoos? (DOC)
The Zoo Facts and Figures (DOC)
Feeding the Animals at the Zoo (DOC)
Frequently Asked Questions (DOC)

Zoo Assignments for Secondary Students

Challenge your secondary students to observe, read, think, record data and make their own discoveries at the zoo with these free zoo assignments. 

Grade   9 - Biomes  (DOC)
Grade   9 - Biomes Worksheet (DOC)
Grade   9 - Sustainable Ecosystems (DOC)
Grade   9 - Urbanization (DOC)
Grade 10 - Climate Change (DOC)
Grade 10 - Sustainability of Ecosystems (DOC)
Grade 11 - Anthropology (DOC)
Grade 11 - Biodiversity (DOC)
Grade 11 - Environmental Science (DOC)
Grade 12 - Evolution (DOC)

Free Redside Dace Lesson Plans

This small fish is recognized as "Threatened" in S. Ontario. Toronto Zoo and partners are working hard to rehabilitate habitat, study the fish and raise public awareness of its plight. The following lesson plans reflect the Science & Technology Curriculum Guidelines. We welcome your input.

Click here for Grade 1 (PDF)
Click here for Grade 7 (PDF)

Workshop Agendas and Classroom Material

Grade 1 .PDF CHARACTERISTICS & NEEDS OF LIVING THINGS BOOKLET
Grade 2 .Doc .PDF SEASONAL CHANGE IN ANIMALS BOOKLET
Grade 4 .Doc .PDF ANIMAL HABITATS AND HUMAN INFLUENCE ON HABITATS BOOKLET
Grade 4 .Doc .PDF WETLAND HABITATS AND COMMUNITIES BOOKLET
Grade 5 .Doc .PDF HUMAN ORGAN SYSTEMS BOOKLET
Grade 6 .Doc .PDF VERTEBRATE CLASSIFICATION BOOKLET
Grade 7 .Doc .PDF TROPICAL RAIN FOREST ECOSYSTEM BOOKLET
Grade 8 .Doc .PDF WATER SYSTEMS BOOKLET