Zoo School
Sponsored by Suncor Energy Foundation
Is your classroom a zoo? We know the feeling.
That’s because our classroom IS the zoo. Imagine spending science class observing the squirrel monkeys, math class measuring the lemur enclosure and language arts class describing what an armadillo feels like. Social class might involve a discussion about the role of zoos with the zoo’s operation supervisor. For art class, how about watching an elephant paint? These are just some of the ways we spend our days at Zoo School!
Zoo School gives you the opportunity to make the zoo your classroom for a whole week. Together with the Zoo School Coordinator, you can plan your week and customize it so that it meets all your desired curricular objectives. Design a week full of demonstrations, hands-on animal encounters, behind the scenes tours, guest speakers and special presentations. Students will be journaling, observing, sketching, hearing, smelling, touching and questioning all week long. Every day promises new experiences and new discoveries.
Supported by Suncor Energy Foundation, Zoo School is available to 16 classes each year. Grades 1–12 from Edmonton and the surrounding area can take part in this experience that could be their most memorable learning experience ever.
Apply for Zoo School
The 2016-17 application is now closed.
Zoo School is one of Edmonton's Inquiring Minds Site Schools. For more information, and to see past application forms, please visit Inquiring Minds.
To learn more about Suncor Energy's community partnerships, visit www.suncor.com/community.
For More Information
Edmonton Valley Zoo
13315 Buena Vista Road (87th Avenue)
PO Box 2359
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2R7
| Telephone | In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311 |
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| attractions@edmonton.ca |
Courtney van Roijen
| Title | Zoo School Coordinator |
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| courtney.vanroijen@edmonton.ca |
