Tours

Students in grades 9-12 are able to tour the Zoo’s Commissary and Oliver Animal Hospital. Groups are limited to 15 total people including students and teachers. All participants must wear closed-toe shoes. Tours involve a fair amount of walking. For every ten...

Operation Insect Investigation

Expand your students’ understanding of a “bug’s life” by learning how they eat, move, and survive in our world. Your budding entomologists will also be able to identify this largest group of arthropods by recognizing their habitat and survival...

Dante’s Inferno

This is a full length verse translation/adaptation of Dante’s first book of his Divine Comedy – Inferno.   Confronted by his fears and sins, in the figures of three wild beasts, Dante cannot make it up the mountain to the light (Heaven).  As he flees down the...

Science on the Go: Live Science Show

Bring your students together to Kick it with Chemistry, be exhilarated by Electrifying Energy or find out how our bodies process sugar and some of the not-so-sweet side effects in Science of Sweets. For entire schools or large groups, multi-grade level appropriate....

Science on the Go: Hands-On Program

Stimulate your students with science! Standards based, grade-level appropriate, hands-on science activities. See website for program details. Min 10/max 25 students per classroom. Book multiple rooms per visit. For list of programs go to...

Science on the Go: Show and a Program

Combine a live science show and a hands-on program for a complete educational adventure right at your own school! Live science shows hold up to 300 students (minimum 50). Hands-on programs hold up to 25 students (minimum 10). For a complete list of shows go to...

Do the Dome!

Choose a movie or a planetarium show at the Digital Dome Theater and Planetarium. Movies this year include: Pandas: The Journey Home Great White Shark Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag (3-12)(available until January 2019) Chirpie's Amazing World Adventure (K-2)...

Hands-On Programs

Choose from standards based, grade-level appropriate hands on education programs. For a list of programs go to www.exploration.org/programs/hands-on-programs

How Does Your Garden Grow?

This classic chidren’s class offered by Botanica leads students through the discovery of what is needed to grow a plant from seed to flower. Your students will help grow a 6 foot tall sunflower as they become the soil, rain, and sun!