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TEKS focused curriculum classes
(Available year round except during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Holidays)

Zoo Education staff and volunteers present 45 minute, TEKS-focused, curriculum-based programs onsite at the zoo or offsite at your school. Classes are available by request using the online reservation form available at www.elpasozoo.org. All classes are fun, interactive learning experiences with opportunities for encounters with our education animals and animal biofacts. Classes include programs designed for a wide variety of groups including students coming on field trips, scout groups and religious groups. Reserve your date at least three weeks in advance, although the Zoo will arrange for these programs on short notice when scheduling permits and resources are available. View the list below to see the many program options. If you do not see the program you want, or are working on a specific content area in your classroom, contact the Zoo Adventure Education Specialist, Rose Janice at janicera@elpasotexas.gov
or (915) 521-1894 to discuss more options.

At the Zoo:
Adding a Zoo Adventure Program to your field trip provides your group with an interactive 45 minute classroom program, scavenger hunt and a scheduled day at the Zoo including scheduled animal encounter programs. When coming to the Zoo there may be up to 25 students per session at $3 per student (100 students per day). The minimum class size is 20. Smaller class sizes can be accommodated at any size for $60. Zoo admission fees are extra at $5 per student and $7.50 per chaperone (1 chaperone for every 10 students at group rate). For an on site program at the Zoo with a field trip fill out a group registration form here: At Zoo Registration

Offsite at your school:
There may be up to 40 students per session. Cost for the first 30-60 minute program is $110. Cost for second and or third additional programs scheduled within 15-30 minutes on the same day and at the same location are $70 per program. The maximum time we can spend at your school is 3 hours. Please provide a screen or wall for projected images and a climate controlled room for the presentation that is between 70-75 degrees F for the safety of the animals.
To Register for an off site program at your school use this registration form:
Off site (at school) Registration

For most programs students will get an up close look at some of our educational animals and biofacts. Animals in our education collection include reptiles (snakes, tortoises and other reptiles), birds (parrots), invertebrates (venomous and non venomous) and mammals (chinchilla, hedgehog, ferret and other mammals). For animal safety reasons we cannot guarantee any individual animal or class of animals. Please note that like people, animals sometimes have a bad day or are sick and on these days some animals may not be available. There may be an option for participants to touch an educational animal depending on group size and age.

Animal Wrappers All about mammals. Target Age: Kinder through 2nd grade
Animal Adaptations All about reptiles. Target Age: 3rd grade on up
All About Water Target Age: K-6th grade
Our World Our Friend The importance of biodiversity. Customized to fit all grade levels
Rainforest Revenues Learn how amphibians teach us how to conserve the rainforest. Target Age: 3rd Grade and up

Animals and Plants of our Chihuahuan Desert Customized to fit all grade levels
Career Days Customized to fit all grade levels
CreepyCrawlers Customized to fit all grade levels
Desert Food Web Target Age: Who eats What? Target Age: 5th Grade - 7th Grade
Teacher Workshops Come and join us for one or more of our special teacher workshops
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Animal Wrappers: All about mammals
Target Age: Kinder through 2nd grade
Why do mammals have hair? Why are mammals warm-blooded? This program investigates the outer covering of mammals using educational bio-facts. Our live education animals represent the different types of coverings.
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Animal Adaptations: All about Reptiles
Target Age: 3rd Grade on up
Why do reptiles have scales? Why reptiles are cold blooded? This program investigates the outer covering of reptiles using educational bio-facts. Our live educational animals represent the different types of coverings.
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All about Water
Target Age: K-6th grade
This interactive lesson will help children understand water sources in El Paso and why it is a limited resource that needs to be conserved. Children learn about the water cycle and its physical forms and threats to fresh water through hands on activities. Presented in conjunction with the El Paso Water Utilities. Live education animals with water adaptations reinforce the importance of water.
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Our World Our Friend
The importance of biodiversity. Customized to fit all ages
How are our everyday lives affecting animals and plants around the world? In addition, why is that so important? They will discover how the choices we make each day affect the world around us. Biofacts and live education animal ambassadors will be presented.
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Rainforest Revenues: Learn how amphibians teach us how to conserve the rainforest
Customized to fit all grade levels
How many of the items we find in our homes and use each day actually comes from the rainforest? You will be amazed to find what products in our homes and schools have rainforest origins! This presentation provides an in-depth look at the importance of and delicate balance within a rainforest ecosystem. Activities and discussions contrast the positive products that come from the forest and some of the destructive effects of over-production and over-consumption. Our live education amphibians help to reinforce the program.
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Animals and Plants of our Chihuahuan Desert
Customized to fit all grade levels
Bring the Chihuahuan Desert to life with an interactive lesson utilizing hands on activities, biofacts and live educational animals. Students will learn all about Chihuahuan Desert animals and plants and adaptations of how they survive in our desert. Students will discover how unique and diverse the Chihuahuan Desert is. Learn why biodiversity is important to protect and how you can help. Live education animals and biofacts presented.
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Career Days
Customized to fit all grade levels
Inspire students to get involved in science and math careers at a zoo or connected to a zoo. Learn more about jobs kids are curious about such as zookeeper, exotic animal vets, vet techs and then bring to life all the opportunities available such as animal curators, education staff, conservation staff, wildlife research, zoo director, marketing, architecture, and many more! Students are engaged with live educational animals and biofacts during the 45 minute presentation.
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Creepy Crawlers of the Chihuahuan Desert
Target Age: Customized to fit all grade levels
Meet and greet some of the smaller animals that might lurk in your backyard. Students learn the importance of why these invertebrates balance our ecosystems.
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Desert Food Web
Target Age: 5th Grade to 7th Grade
Who eats what? This fun, interactive program will help your students understand how animals depend on each other for survival in the wilds of our local Chihuahuan Desert. Students will also have the opportunity to learn through live educational animals and biofacts.
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Teacher's Workshops at the El Paso Zoo

All workshops are designed to meet the needs of K-12 teachers in many areas of science. Topics meet the TEKS and STARR curriculum for K-12 in conservation, animal adaptations, ecology, biodiversity, classification, and more. Earn CPE credits at the zoo!

Chihuahuan Desert workshops are designed to help you appreciate and increase your awareness of our desert and to teach basic knowledge of the animals that live in our backyard. You will understand how these animals are adapted to the desert and become empowered to help with conservation efforts. Join us for one or all of our workshops and you will be guaranteed a remarkable, learning, awe inspiring experience.

Online Registration Required. Make sure to fill in appropriate date on registration form. Registration. $10 per person. Entrance to the Zoo included. Only 25 spots available.

Online Registration Required.
Registration

For more information about a Chihuahuan Desert Workshop contact Rose Janice, Zoo Adventure Education Specialist, at janicera@elpasotexas.gov or (915) 521-1894.

Scheduled of Chihuahuan Desert Workshops:

8:30 am to 12:30 pm
January 5, 2013 Mammals of the Chihuahuan Desert
Deadline: December 5, 2013

February 18, 2013 Mammals of the Chihuahuan Desert
Deadline: January 18, 2013

March 16, 2013 Birds of the Chihuahuan Desert
February 16, 2013

April 20, 2013 Teacher Resource Day (Party for the Planet Event)
March 20, 2013

May 25, 2013 Birds of the Chihuahuan Desert
April 25, 2013

June 25, 2013 Reptiles of the Chihuahuan Desert
May 25, 2013

July 13, 2013 Amphibians of the Chihuahuan Desert
Deadline: June 13th, 2013

August, 2013 Inverts of the Chihuahuan Desert
Deadline: July 3, 2013





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El Paso Zoo's Mission
Our mission is to celebrate the value of animals and natural resources and to create opportunities for people to rediscover their connection to nature.