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Home Away From Home

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Students discover some of the threats to tigers in the wild and some of the challenges of keeping them in wildlife preserves and zoos. They then sketch and explain their designs for sensible tiger enclosures in zoos.

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tigers, wildlife, zoo animals

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tigers, wild animals, zoos, science
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Grade
K - 4th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
3 hrs
Instructional Strategy
Project-Based Learning

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