ZOOTRITION Site Map . .

Credits

Animals Studied 

Aardvark
....Diet
....Biography
....Comparative

Spectacled Bear 
....Diet
....Biography
... Comparative

Bottle-nosed Dolphin
....Diet
....Biography
....Comparative

Elephant
....Diet
....Biography
....Comparative

Reticulated Giraffe
....Diet
....Biography
....Comparative

Gorilla
....Diet
....Biography
....Comparative

Kiwi
....Diet
....Biography
....Comparative

Lion
....Diet
....Biography
....Comparative

Project Description

The Lake Park High School Honors Chemistry classes worked on a cooperative project with the Brookfield Zoo. The project, chosen by the students, was to study the differences and similarities of the nutritional habits of Sophomore Honors Chemistry students to zoo animals. The project started with the Brookfield Zoo choosing eight animals they felt had interesting eating habits and whose nutritional information was complete. They sent the three classes the zoo animals diets, to be broken down into nutrients. The classes then used this information and a computer program to find out what they could about the nutrients in the animals' diets. The students also kept track of their own diets for a week to determine their average nutritional intake per day, for use in comparisons. On December 19th, 1997, the students visited the Brookfield Zoo, to supplement the information they already had. Three groups were formed; one went on a commissary tour, the second met with the zoo's nutritionist and the third took animal pictures. The final class activity was an inschool field trip where groups input information they had gathered into categories and saved them on computer disks. The steering committee, took this information and with much help from the school Technical Director and their teacher, formatted and built this webpage.