

A wondrous city for sightseeing, Washington, D.C. is a treasure trove of fascinating architecture–for close encounters of the animal kind! From the U.S. Capitol Building to the National Zoo and everywhere in between there is an amazing and amusing menagerie of animals, hidden in plain sight on buildings all around our nation’s capital.
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
Language arts, appreciating poetry, appreciating history, vocabulary development, exposure to literary devices, understanding neighborhoods and architecture in everyday life, recognizing animals, inferring, understanding spatial relationships, photographs, informative text