Suggested Questions about Ducks:

• How many ducks are in the lagoon for Simon to feed?
• How many are adult ducks?
• How many are baby ducks?
• What is a baby duck called?
• What type of food do ducks eat? Should people feed the ducks? Use the information in the following Web sites to teach students that, even though it is a common and seemingly fun activity, feeding ducks can actually harm them.
  
  http://www.liveducks.com/wfeeding.html
  
  and
  
  www.essortment.com/all/feedingducksge_ruiq.htm
  
  Standards: NM-NUM.PK-2.1 Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships among Numbers, and Number Systems; NS.K-4.3 Life Science; NS.K-4.6 Science in Personal and Social Perspectives