Professional Networking Activity I live in Cicero Illinois, so I decided to visit and learn about the Brookfield zoo teacher resources center. The Brookfield zoo has many great tools to support educators in sharing wonderful information about science to their students. Brookfield zoo have special connection classes, for educators to bring the class to the zoo, so students can experience hands-on learning activities. For the teachers; the zoo have teacher classes, which are for the educators to learn special science topics through hands-on activities. The main resource for teachers to support science learning is field trips planning, where all the class can come and have a wonderful fieldtrip experience. I chose to visit a zoo because I believe that even if students …show more content…
The class is a two hour class and it provides students hands-on activities. The class encourage students to explore and inquire about different science topics, such as, learning about animals and their habitats. The number one resource for teachers is to plan a fieldtrips, the zoo provides free general admission to head start, public and private school in Illinois. At my visit at the zoo at walked around the zoo, for about eight hours. I took breakfast, snacks and dinner. The more I saw the more questions I wanted to research, for example, at my visit I learned that there are wolfs from Mexico, so I couldn’t wait to find out exactly how this wolfs now reside in Illinois. I noticed that parents wanted for their children to look at the big animals and to pay close attention to what the animals were doing. However, I noticed the young children pay attention to the smallest things at the zoo. Such as, leafs, the flowers, the trees, the soil were the animals live. So, I believe we can use a fieldtrip to the zoo to encourage student’s interest for the natural world, and we can introduce children all the wonderful forms of