The Zoo World Patch Program is designed for Daisy through Cadette Girl Scouts. Through participation in this program girls will have the opporunity to discover and explore the Zoo environment and learn respect for animal life.

• Daisy Girl Scout Activities
• Brownie Girl Scout Activities
• Junior Girl Scout Activities
• Cadette Girl Scout Activities

1. Do some of the following program activities from the Daisy Girl Scout Leader's Guide: Alphabet Hie, p.93; Imitate nature, p.98;Camouflage, p. 127; Outdoor Sights, p.128; Outdoor Sounds, p.128; Outdoor Smells, p.129; Outdoor Feeling, p.129.
2. Have the girls pretend they are givign an elephant a bath: How big is the elephant? where would you give it a bath? What do you need to help you? Where do you start? Remember his ears and his feet. Do you think he likes being washed?
3. Have a Gorilla's lunch. Collect very large leaves for a table covering. Prepare a plate of food from this list: apples, bananas, carrots, celery, cucumber, grapes, lettuce, organges, tomatoes. An animal that eats plants is called a herbivore. Is the Gorilla herbivore?
4. Read to the girls "Little Red Riding Hood" or "The Three Little Pigs." Discuss the role of the wolf. Do these stories tell what a wolf is really like? Find out about wolves and then have the girls retell the story from the world's point of view.
5. Make copies of pictures of animals (resource pages available in council patch packet) and have each girl color them. Discuss each animals characteristics: Kangaroo, Lion, Osterich.
6. Before visiting the Zoo, make a list of "do's and Don'ts." Discuss what happens when a person eats too much between meals. Zoo animals can be overfed but undernourished, because of snaks fed to them by Zoo visitors. The Zoo is where animals eat, sleep and play all day. They like quiet and privacy just as people do.

1. Make an animal montage, using paste or glue
2. Do the Habitat Hunt outlines of p. 155 of the Brownie Girl Scout Handbook
3. Discuss how you take care of a pet. Have the girls bring their pets to a troop meeting and discuss how they take care of them
4. Teach them the following definitions: Habitat - the place best suited to an animal's living habits; mammals - are warm-blooded and have fur or hair; reptiles - are cold-blooded, usually have shells or tough, heavy skins to protect them; amphibians - animals that live partly on land and partly in water.
5. Do a bird watching activity. Watch for the things they eat, and what they use for building nests. Keep a list of birds, where you saw them, and what they were doing.
6. Have the girls color animal pictures (resource pages available in council patch packet) and then discuss their characteristics: beaks and feet, sun bears, high open country, ostruch, reticulated giraffe.
7. A Trip to Africa - take the girls on an imaginary trip to Africa. Have them put their heads down and close their eyes, while you describe a plane flight to Africa: They get off th eplane and walk out of the airport and over to a friends giraffe. the Giraffe invites them to sit on its head; on the way up to the hop of this head they notice many things abou the giraffe. What would they notice? (His color, mane, horns, long tongue, etc.) They and the Giraffe have a nice talk and then they return to the airplane and come home. Have the girls take out paper & pencil and draw the giraffe as they imagined in their mind. When they are done, show them several clear pictures of giraffes and match them to the drawings. See what changes they need to make in their drawing and have them do another one. The second drawing should be more accurate than the first.
8. Visit the Zoo

1. Using natural materials (twigs, leaves, bark, straw, etc.) create a large mural. Wherever possible, try to make it three dimensional. Show giraffes living in the grasslands and be sure to include the trees on which they feed. Inlucde some zebra to eat the grass. Don't forget a gorup of lions. What do they eat?
2. Make a pair of Elephant ears out of paper or cardboard. These measurements will help: Asian Elephant Ears - length 75 cm., width 60 cm.;African Elephant Ears - length 1.5 m., width 1.2 m.
3. Provide pictures of various cats. Each girl picks one of the pictures and writes a story or poem about it. (Be sure they include where the animal lives, what it eats and what a day/night in its life might be like.) Provoke imagination with titles of writing projects such as: The Day the Gorilla Came to My House, How the Raccoon & The Turtle Became Friends, If I Were An EAgle.
4. Select an animal. Draw and oclor it. Cut it into large pieces. Have girls show one piece and see if other girls can decide what it is. If not, add another piece until someone guesses it.
5. Have girls find out whqat career choices are available at a Zoo. Find out what volunteer assignments are available at a Zoo and the requirements for becoming a Zoo Docent.
6. Do any two of the following activities in the Girl Scout Badges & Signs book: Dabbler, B-1 or B-2, p.190; Ecology, #5, p.196
7. Mix up the sentences in a short animal stor. Have the girls reorganize the sentences into logical order.
8. Visit the Zoo and observe the different tasks and responsibilities of the people who work there.

1. Have the girls find out what career choices are available at a Zoo. Don't forget to check the Education, Public Relations, and Administration Departments. What are the requirements and experience needed for each position?
2. What volunteer or internship assignments are available? What type of training is provided for these assignments? What are the requirements for becoming a Zoo Docent?
3. Volunteer at a local S.P.C.A. or other animal organization
4. Ask your librarian for a copy of the record "Language and Music of Wolves," (Narrated by Robert Redford, Columbia Records c30769). Play it for your group. Talk about communication between animals.
5. Using natural materials, create a large mural. Wherever possible try to make it three dimensional.Show giraffes living in the grasslands and be sure to include the trees on which they feed. Inlucde some zebras to eat the grass. Don't forget a group of lions. What do they eat?
6. There are more tigers in zoos throughout the world than in the wild. Can you think of some reasons for this. Investigate the tiger or another zoo animal that is an endangered species. Make an animal conservation poster.
7. Visit the Zoo or other animal organization. Write a short story about your visit. Be sure to include key observations, such as setting, characteristics (animal & human), interactions between animals and/or people, action and closing.