Zoo Outreach Opportunities - Booked until January, 2013!
The main goal of the Tulsa Zoo Outreach program is to increase awareness of the natural world while encouraging a healthy appreciation of wildlife and conservation. Our programs create fun learning environments using activities to teach age-appropriate science and conservation. As students grow with the program, it is our aspiration that their appreciation of the natural world will lead to promoting conservational stewardship as young adults.
Download our registration form and mail or fax it to:
Attn: Outreach Programs
Tulsa Zoo
6421 East 36th Street North
Tulsa, OK 74115
Fax - 918.669.6875
Overview
Each component of the outreach program seamlessly blends environmental education with science, math, language arts, reading, fine arts and even history to provide teachers with resources and information that are both educational and FUN. Created and presented by trained zoo professionals, our programs and resources combine current information, technology, and activities. Each program aims at encouraging curiosity about our world helping students become environmentally conscientious and scientifically literate scholars.
Full Unit
A full unit combines both the Zoo 2 U program and Discovery Trunks. The zoo instructor will teach an opening program, leave a Discovery Trunk for up to four weeks and return to do another Zoo 2 U program or U 2 Zoo program to close the unit. Groups are limited to 50 participants at a time.
Prices:
$125.00 for schools inside the Zoo Radius*
$250.00 (CSI Zoo Full Unit Price) for schools inside the Zoo Radius
$175.00 for schools outside the Zoo Radius up to 60 miles
$300.00 (CSI Zoo Full Unit Price) for schools outside the Zoo Radius up to 60 miles
$100.00 if doing a U 2 Zoo program for the conclusion of the unit
Receive a 10% discount for each additional program scheduled on the same day, up to a maximum of three programs.
Zoo 2 U Program
Let us bring the zoo to your classroom! The Tulsa Zoo outreach programs combine science and environmental education with other content areas to engage participants in an enjoyable kinesthetic learning experience covering a multitude of topics. All programs last about one hour, include activities, live animals and meet various Oklahoma Core Curriculum Testing standards such as PASS and Common CORE. Groups are limited to 50 participants at a time.
Prices:
$75.00 for schools inside the Zoo Radius
$125.00 for schools outside the Zoo Radius up to 60 miles
Receive a 10% discount for each additional program scheduled on the same day, up to a maximum of three programs.
U 2 Zoo Program
Similar in content to our Zoo 2 U outreach programs, but students are able to visit the zoo rather than the zoo visit the classroom. The U 2 Zoo outreach programs combine science and environmental education with other content areas to engage participants in an enjoyable kinesthetic learning experience on zoo grounds covering a multitude of topics. All programs last about thirty minutes, include activities, live animals and meet various Oklahoma Core Curriculum Testing standards such as PASS and Common CORE.
Prices:
$50.00 per program, admission not included
Receive a 10% discount for each additional program scheduled on the same day, up to a maximum of three programs.
Discovery Trunk
These trunks include resources such as skulls, pelts, tracks and other items to use in your classroom. Each kit also comes with a resource binder full of lessons, activities and background information pertaining to the requested topic. All lessons and activities meet various Oklahoma Core Curriculum Testing standards such as PASS and Common CORE.
Prices:
$75.00 for schools inside the Zoo Radius
$125.00 for schools outside the Zoo Radius up to 60 miles
Receive a 10% discount for each additional program scheduled on the same day, up to a maximum of three programs.
U 2 Zoo Tours
The Tulsa Zoo offers tours for groups (20 participants max). Each tour lasts approximately 1 hour to 1.5 hours. Your group will be led by a trained zoo professional and interact with students through the use of activities and engaging discussion. Any of our program topics can be modified into a tour. U 2 Zoo Tours cannot be offered as a part of the full unit. If you have a special request for a tour please call or e-mail the education department. U 2 Zoo Tours do not include behind the scene tours of the zoo.
Prices:
$100.00 per program, admission not included
Receive a 10% discount for each additional program scheduled on the same day, up to a maximum of three programs.
The Tulsa Zoo Reserves the right to pause or stop a program in the instance it becomes unsafe for the
animal, audience, instructor and/or biofacts. Programs may also be canceled due to severe weather.
Program Topics
Pre-Kindergarten
COLORS AND SHAPES OF NATURE – Review basic colors and geometric shapes found in nature while discovering why things in nature may look the way they do.
NATURE SENSE – “Look” through the different eyes of the animals and listen to their sounds while learning about their place in the environment.
Kindergarten
NATURE SENSE – Take an advanced look at how animals perceive their world through activities and lessons directed towards young learners.
ANIMAL TALES – Connect stories to science by reading and learning about plants and animals all around us.
First Grade
UNDERCOVER CREATURES– Take a look behind the curtain and see why animals may look the way they do in order to hide or stand out in nature.
SUITED FOR THE SEASONS – As the seasons change, animals and plants prepare for the weather to come. See how some native and exotic animals and plants prepare for the seasons of the year.
Second Grade
GLOBE TROTTERS – Travel the world while never leaving the school discovering familiar and exotic lands with unusual plants and animals.
ROCKS AND MINERALS – They are all around us and under our feet. Students will discover how rocks are made and what they are made of. Plus, how valuable rocks are to plants, animals and people’s survival.
Third Grade
GLOBE TROTTERS – As an extension to the second grade “Globe Trotters,” compare and contrast different environments around the world and how each environment has similar components such as producers, consumers and decomposers.
FIND YOUR NICHE– Each critter or plant has a special job. Students will enjoy learning about the diversity in nature and how everything works together to create biodiversity.
Fourth Grade
OKLAHOMA WILD – Forget Africa or the rainforest, Oklahoma is WILD all by itself! Discover the amazing plants and animals that live in our own state.
GLOBE TROTTERS – Another extension of the second and third grade programs, now students will begin to discuss environmental issues around the world and how they can connect to our lives in Oklahoma.
Fifth Grade
IT’S GREAT TO BE GREEN – Conservation starts as a conversation. Let’s open the discussion on how to promote conservation right here. Students will be encouraged to create conservation plans and learn about successful conservation stories that have helped saved species all over the world.
TRADER SCHOOL – Discovery is all around you. Students will begin to understand the diversity and interconnectedness of things in nature from rocks to plants to animals while learning how to closely observe things they find outside. This program is based off of the Nature Exchange trading program at the Tulsa Zoo.
Middle School
THE BIG BLUE PICTURE – The things we do and choices we make here in Oklahoma does affect wildlife on the other side of the world. Students will begin to broaden their scope of home to see how they can make a positive difference.
CSI ZOO – Students will use knowledge of science, chemistry, physics, fine arts, mathematics and deductive reasoning to solve “crime scenes” based on actual crimes against nature. (To complete the unit, one field trip is required to participate in the crime scenes. Due to the supplies and intense curriculum this program is offered at a slightly elevated price.)
High School
SUITED FOR SURVIVAL – Animals are equipped with many diverse adaptations to enhance their chances of survival. Students will learn about unique adaptations and survival strategies animals use in the wild.
CSI ZOO – A more advanced version of the Middle School CSI Zoo: students will use knowledge of science, chemistry, physics, fine arts, mathematics and deductive reasoning to solve “crime scenes” based on actual crimes against nature. (To complete the unit, one field trip is required to participate in the crime scenes. Due to the supplies and intense curriculum this program is offered at a slightly elevated price.)
“IF I RAN THE ZOO” – Students will learn exactly what it takes to run a zoo from animal care to the finances and requirements of running a large recreational park including managing endangered species.
College
ZOO ECOLOGY – You can take a walk around the world in one afternoon when you spend it at the zoo. This tour introduces students to the diversity of the world as portrayed throughout the zoo.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS – This is like a mini-professional development for teachers. Pre-service teachers will learn some tricks-of-the-trade for teaching environmental education while blending it into other content areas.
WILD ADAPTATIONS – Easily adjusted for different disciplines, this program offers a more detailed view of plant and animal adaptations for survival. Specific content pertaining to adaptations will be custom tailored to fit the curricular needs of your group.
Additional topics and programs are available upon request. Please email emortimer@tulsazoo.org for more information.
*School Districts inside the Zoo Radius:
Allen-Bowden, Anderson, Avant, Beggs, Bixby, Bristow, Broken Arrow, Caney Valley, Catoosa,
Collinsville, Coweta, Glenpool, Haskell, Inola, Jenks, Justus-Tiawah, Kellyville, Kiefer, Leonard,
Mannford, Mounds, Oologah-Talala, Owasso, Pretty Water, Prue, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Skiatook,
Tulsa, Twin Hills, Union and Wagoner
