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Animal and Plant Families at Long Island Game Farm is a hands-on, inquiry-based program designed for elementary students in grades K–3. Students explore how plants and animals grow, change, and resemble their parents through direct observation and guided discussion.
The program begins at the Goat Nursery and other parent/offspring animal exhibits, such as capybara and ring-tailed lemurs. Students observe physical traits shared between parents and young, note differences, and learn about parent/child behaviors such as feeding, protection, and social interaction.
Students then walk the Woodland Trail to discover plant families, identifying seeds, seedlings, and young plants, and learning how plants produce new plants similar to themselves.
The experience concludes with a creative art project that reinforces key concepts of heredity, growth, and family connections in the natural world.
Aligned with NYS Science Learning Standards:
1-LS3-1 (Inheritance of traits)
1-LS1-2 (Growth and development of organisms)
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