Zoo
education classes run throughout the summer, with the goal that students
will develop positive attitudes toward animals while having fun learning.
Experienced teachers, the zoo education coordinator and zoo attendants teach our Zoo school classes. Using both their experience and the Zoo as a "living laboratory," they teach students where animals live, what they eat, how they socialize, and the role they play in the larger animal kingdom.
Summer Zoo Classes Include:
- Kinderfari - for ages 4 and 5
- Zoo Explorers - Kids ages 6 and 7 learn about animals' special features that help them survive in the wild.
- Zoo Scouts - Kids ages 8 and 9 learn about the Zoo's large animals by using fun comparisons between human and animal traits.
- Photo Safari - Where kids 10 and up get up close with Zoo animals for fun photo opportunities. Camera and film must be supplied by students.
- Junior Zookeepers - Kids ages 10 and up get a behind-the-scenes look at the Zoo's endangered species.
- Zoo Snooze - Kids 10 and up get to spend a night in the Zoo and join a flashlight safari to see and hear the sights and sounds of the Zoo at night.
Zoo school
fills up early every year, and Zoological Society members get advance
notice of classes. Registration is by mail only. For more information,
please call or write the Henry Vilas Park Zoological Society at:
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