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- 6th Grade Discover Program 2007-2008 School Program Topics All of our programs are designed to be inquiry based. To ensure an interactive and hands-on experience for all students attending a Virginia Zoo program, they will be limited to one class per program. We are able to accommodate up to three programs at the same time on Zoo grounds (except as specified below).
Grade Four Find Your Niche New! SOL 4.5
In this program, our animal visitors highlight individual niches, food webs, and communities, and help students better understand potential human impacts. Operation...Research! SOLs 4.1, 4.5 Program on Zoo grounds only. Our Virginia Zoo researcher has been studying a mystery animal in detail. She has collected information about this animal's habitat, life cycle, eating habits and its community. Unfortunately she has not reported in for two weeks. Your class will be sent to her research station where they will piece together an array of her collected data and hopefully discover where our researcher has been and meet this elusive animal she has been studying! *Due to the nature of this program we will only be able to teach one program at a time. Additional Option : Multigrade Program (Kindergarten through Grade 4) Animals in Class Specific content can be adapted to SOLs at one or more grade levels by request, or one particular unit topic can be emphasized. Facts and ideas about specific animals and groups of animals will come alive as students see, and sometimes touch, a variety of animals. Behavior, habitat, classification, adaptations, life cycles, relationship to humans or some other specific topic can be emphasized on request.
Grade Five Where's Your Skeleton? SOL 5.1, 5.5
Let your students get to know, or know better, how to recognize vertebrate classes, or quickly spot an invertebrate. They'll fit these groups into the "big picture" of the kingdoms of living things, and learn to keep it simple by classifying step by step (using a key). Fifth -grade teachers: consider also fourth-grade programs for review.
Grade Six
You're in the Watershed! New!
Invite native animals to your classroom to help establish the connection to local wetlands and the watershed. Students will perform approximate and precise measurements like those used in monitoring tidal waters, and perhaps arrive at some new ideas for science projects. Classes that visit the Zoo will observe our tidal wetlands and experience (unpredictable!) sightings of wild native creatures.
Program Times: Begin at 10:00 a.m. on Zoo grounds can be scheduled throughout the day. Registration: You must pre-register for education programs through the Education Department. Please refer to the School Discovery Programs webpage. Cost of Programs: $150.00 per program(30 children maximum). November through February $125.00 per program (30 children maximum). Cost of program also includes admission into the Zoo.
Outreach programs (offered at your school) can be scheduled starting at 10:00 AM. Multiple presentations of the same program may be scheduled on the same day, but not more than two at a time. Cost of Program at Your Facility: Travel fee (based on roundtrip mileage from the Zoo) plus $150.00 per program (30 children maximum). Travel Fees for "Zoo to You" Programs 0-`5 miles from the Zoo.................$15.00 16-30 miles...........................................$20.00 31-45 miles...........................................$25.00 46-60 miles...........................................$30.00 61-75 miles...........................................$35.00 |
Available
at the Zoo or as a Zoo to You outreach 
Available
at the Zoo or as a Zoo to You Outreach 
Available
at the Zoo or as a Zoo to You Outreach (Please note that holding
the program at the Zoo allows for actual observation of tidal wetlands
included within and bordering the Zoo grounds)
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