How to Make a Panda Popsicle

Learn how to make a human-friendly popsicle modeled after the ice treats that we give our pandas!

Categories

Age Group: Preschool
Animal Area: Mammals
ELOF Domain: Approaches to Learning, Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Resource Format: E-Course
Language: English
Smithsonian Museum: National Zoo
Topic: Celebrations, Food
Two pandas are placed on a blue backdrop next to an illustrated popsicle.

Part of the Following Programs

An illustration of a pink jackalope puppet next to a man playing a guitar. On either side of them is a Giant panda and two meerkats.

Let's Celebrate!

Join the National Zoo as we celebrate Head Start's 60th birthday with the help of Giant pandas and meerkats! Discover how not only the zoo celebrates birthdays but also how people across the world celebrate special moments!

Content Unit :
Celebrations
Featured Creature :
Panda, Meerkats
Smithsonian Partners :
National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of American History, National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
ELOF Standards :
IT-ATL 7; IT-ATL 8; IT-SE 13; IT-LC 11; IT-C 3; IT-PMP 6; IT-PMP 7; IT-PMP 8; P-ATL 11; P-ATL 13; P-SE 11; P-PMP 3
A cartoon illustration of a man playing a guitar and a pink jackalope puppet are surrounded by photographs of a bald eagle, a sea lion, and an owl.

Happy Birthday!

Join us as we celebrate Head Start's birthday and America's 250th birthday!

Content Unit :
Birthday
Featured Creature :
Bald eagle, California sea lion, Eastern screech owl
A cartoon character of a man holding a guitar and a pink jackalope puppet stand next to a western lowland gorilla and a red ruffed lemur.

Food with Friends

Explore the foods that people and animals eat! Discover how our meals can be similar and different, and how sharing food can bring us together.

Content Unit :

Food

Featured Creature :

Western Lowland Gorilla + Red Ruffed Lemur

Featured School :

Holyoke-Chicopee-Springfield Head Start (Massachusetts)

ELOF Standards :

Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Communication; Scientific Reasoning