In Zooconomy classrooms, students design their own zoo, carefully researching the habitat, diet and special characteristics of their favorite animals. When they discover they want more animals than they can have, some tough decisions must be made. Fortunately, this program teaches the decision-making skills that will allow your students to become good zooconomists.

This award-winning unit allows students to become zooconomists and work together to design a new zoo. Students research animals they would like to display at their zoo.

Of course, all of these animals have special needs, and the zoo has limited resources. The students are faced with the decision of what animals they can include and which they must give up.

Zooconomy: Zoo Decisions contains five lessons that teach basic economic concepts and develop analytical thinking skills through economics with an integration of science, math, language arts and map skills.

The unit is contained in a three-ring binder and includes a reuseable map for zoo design.

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