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Activity Resources
Scavenger Hunts!
Explore at home or at the Zoo with one of the Scavenger Hunts below!
Click any of the links below download a .pdf Scavenger Hunter and get started!
Check out our awesome hunts!
Not a Pet! Illegal Trade of Live Wildlife as Pets
Did you know…
…that high global demand for exotic pets fuels the illegal capture and trade of millions of animals, many of which suffer and die in the process??
Learn More and Pledge to be Advocate for Wildlife!
Educational Game Apps
Zigazoo!
Join Mesker Park Zoo on Zigazoo! Zigazoo is a very safe and fun social streaming app for kids! Zigazooers do video challenges and share them with friends. Challenge ideas come from zoos, children’s museums, and kid-friendly web content creators. Users can subscribe to these channels or to topic themes to get updates when new content is added. Videos can be made public or kept private. Join Mesker Park Zoo’s Zigazoo classroom for fun video challenges involving our zoo happenings, our animal habits and habitats, environmental actions, and more. Download the app, make an account, and enter our classroom code. Then, enjoy the zoo through our challenges! Join our classroom with this code: WFYTKN
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game app that reinforces learning in a fun, competitive way. You can launch a competitive group game in the live classroom, or assign review games to your students to do independently. We’ve created many sets that apply to the animals at our zoo, or complement our conservation programs. Go online to www.create.kahoot.it. Search to discover game sets from “MeskerZoo”. Game sets are always in development, so check often for new ones or share your own with us! Students do not need an account. They will simply go to the app or to www.kahoot.it on their own devices and enter the PIN you give them once you launch a set into a game. Kahoot sets by MeskerZoo:
- Name the Animal!
- Cool Animal Facts
- Mesker Park Zoo Endangered Animals Facts
- Mesker Park Zoo Animals Fun Facts
- Community Interactions
- Nutrient and Energy Cycles
- Biomes
- Populations
- Biodiversity
- Classifications
- Evolution
- Human Impacts to Environment
- Environmental Hazards to Health
- Waste Wanterland
- Climate Change
Quizlet
Quizlet is an interactive vocabulary app that teaches and reinforces learning. It provides students opportunity for independent study of vocabulary and concepts, and also allows for solo and group review games. We’ve created many sets that apply to the animals at our zoo, or complement our conservation programs. Go online to www.quizlet.com . Search to discover vocabulary sets from “MeskerZoo”. Game sets are always in development, so check often for new ones or share your own with us! Students will need their own account. They can use the app or to www.quizlet.com on their own devices to study the sets, and enter the PIN you give them once you launch a set into a game. Quizlet sets by MeskerZoo:
- Mesker Park Zoo Animals Cool Facts*
- Name that Mesker Park Zoo Animal!
- Name that Animal
- Animal Adaptations
- Biodiversity
- Conservation of Species
- Community Interactions
- Populations
- Energy & Nutrient Flow
- Food Webs
- Food Chain Diagram
- Biosphere Levels
- Biomes
- Aquatic Ecosystems
- Climate Change
- Evolution
- Classification