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Lesson Plans for First Grade

Two Golden Lion Tamarins at Topeka Zoo
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1st Grade - Lesson 3

Lesson One: Adaptations (1-LS1.A)

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Lesson TWO: Humans Mimic Animals  (1-LS1- 1)

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Lesson three: Animal Parent Patterns  (1-LS1- 2)

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Lesson four: Animal Parent Behaviors (1-LS1.B)

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Lesson five: Animal babies like parents (1-LS3.A)

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Sneak and Peak, the first bears to reside in Hills Black Bear Woods, which opened in 1996.

Lesson six: individual animals vary (1-LS3.B)

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