March 2024
How Heavy is This Meerkat?
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Skills Sheets
Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Students will identify ways in which zoo scientists use knowledge of an animal’s behavior to get its cooperation in being weighed. They will also learn that scientists collect data.
Reading Level:
Lexile: 520L; GRL: K
Next Generation Science Standards:
Practice 3: Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
Practice 4: Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Vocabulary:
curious, patience, social, data