A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Zookeeper. Inside: 30+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, an 18-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities (including a Baseline Observation lab, an enrichment-puzzle build, and the "Conservation Sentence" challenge — explaining conservation in fifteen words a seven-year-old can act on), six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS and Common Core. Designed to flex from a single-week career-exploration unit to a longer life-science or conservation integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the 5 AM dawn shifts, the 50-pound feed bags, the elephant who recognizes her keeper by footstep, the species pulled back from the edge one bucket at a time. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling grief, extinction, and the quiet moral courage of caring for animals whose outcomes are not always in human hands.