 April
2005
Woodland Park Zoo:
Multimedia
Don’t try to feed the animals through your computer screen!
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
http://www.zoo.org/multimedia/index.html
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CONTENT:
This multimedia area of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington
offers students and teachers videos, Web cams, quizzes, and other
interactive features to help students learn about animals. |
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SITE DESIGN:
The site is well designed and organized. Content is grouped into four
main sections; Featured Video Clip, Video Archive, Interactive features
and Miscellaneous goodies. Each section has its own menu and includes
a top navigation bar to other areas of the site. Macromedia Flash
Player and RealPlayer are required. Users can choose hi-speed or low-speed
connections for viewing videos. |
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REVIEW:
Students will delight in this interactive way to explore animals
in their habitats and teachers will find the information found here
to be a great supplement to the science curriculum. The archive
of video clips offers students the opportunity to view and learn
about such animals as the brown bear, snow leopard, tapir or patas
monkey. The interactive features area includes games and quizzes
but the real attraction is the animal exhibits. Visitors can learn
all about a Chilean Rose Tarantula by mousing over the body parts
for a full description, view video clips of mating, molting, and
capturing its prey or learn about the zoo’s first Asian elephant
baby. Included in this area are an interactive animated map of the
decline of the Sumatran tiger, a video of a Komodo dragon baby hatching
and videos of the jaguar’s world. Students will not want to
miss the miscellaneous goodies as they can view the bears in real
time with the Bear Cam and experience the life cycle of the butterfly.
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