Brandywine Zoo - Teacher Resources

Teachers enjoy a sunny day at the zoo learning how to enhance and enrich lessons in their classrooms.

Teacher Resources

Need help teaching tough topics in science? Take advantage of the Brandywine Zoo's Teacher Workshops and/or Loan Kit Program. All Teacher Workshops are designed to enhance and enrich what is being taught in the classroom. The Zoo's loan kits provide simple lessons that you can follow with your class and are available for two-week periods. All teachers who want to borrow a loan kit must complete the Loan Kit Teacher Workshop conducted through the Delaware Teacher Center.

For additional information about Teacher Workshops and Loan Kits, call the Delaware Teacher Center (800) 282-8770 or visit their website.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
FOR TEACHERS WITH STUDENT GROUPS

NEW! Brandywine Zoo and The Grand Opera House have partnered to bring you Giggle, Giggle, Quack and Curtain Call: Critter Categories. In the hilarious musical Giggle, Giggle, Quack, Farmer Brown has left his city-slicker brother in charge of his farm while he takes a much-needed vacation. He's left detailed instructions on how to take care of the animals but, when Duck does some re-writing, the result is madcap musical mutiny.

See the show and then join the Brandywine Zoo for its Curtain Call program, available only to Giggle, Giggle, Quack ticket holders at The Grand on the day of the show. Learn about the differences between pets, farm friends, and wild animals in this fun program full of cool facts, puppets, an interactive game and, of course, several live animals. It's like getting two field-trips in one!

Recommended for Grades Pre-K - 4
Curriculum Connections: English Language Arts, Music, Theatre, Science (Brandywine Zoo)
PROGRAM TIMES

9:30am - 10:30am - Giggle, Giggle, Quack Performance
10:40am - 11:10am - Curtain Call: Brandywine Zoo's Critter Categories #1
11:20am - 11:50am - Curtain Call: Brandywine Zoo's Critter Categories #2
12:00pm - 1:00pm - Giggle, Giggle, Quack Performance
1:10pm - 1:40pm - Curtain Call: Brandywine Zoo's Critter Categories #3

Tickets: $8 for both programs, $6 for Giggle, Giggle, Quack alone
Contact: Briana Feinberg at (302) 658-7897 or bfeinberg@grandopera.org

Teacher Workshop and Loan Kit Topics Include:

File Folder Games, Habitats!
Make and Take File Folder Games Animal Themes
Suitcase for Survival Loan Kit
Structures of Life
Explore the Brandywine Zoo
Zoo Careers Loan Kit

Fees & Registration

Free with a $25 deposit.

Make reservations in advance with the Zoo's Curator of Education.

Please pick up and drop off kits at the Brandywine Zoo Education Building.

If the kits need to be shipped, teachers will be responsible for all UPS costs.

File Folder Games, Habitats!

Come make some special folder games to use in your classroom. Designed by the Brandywine Zoo Education Department, these games will illustrate animal habitats and can be used to augment animal themed science units.

Make and Take File Folder Games Animal Themes

Teachers will be given the opportunity to make several file folder games that augment science and animal units. Designed by the Brandywine Zoo Education Department, these games will illustrate basic science concepts like habitats, animal classification, camouflage and conservation.

Suitcase for Survival: Elephants, Pythons and Crocodiles in Your Classroom

Bring issues of wildlife conservation to life with the Brandywine Zoo's Suitcase for Survival Loan Kit. After you complete the training you will be allowed to bring the Suitcase for Survival kit to your classroom to use as an educational tool. This kit demonstrates the impact of wildlife trade on the delicate balance of natural ecosystems. The kit includes an instructional video or slide show, wildlife conservation activities and confiscated artifacts such as an elephant tusk, python skin, crocodile purse, butterfly paperweight and much more. At the end of the workshop, teachers can schedule the kit for use during the school year.

Structures of Life: Teacher Enhancement & Field Trip Experience

Are you looking for a field trip experience that supports the Structures of Life Module? Do you want your students to experience real-life applications of the structure/function relationship in organisms? Enroll in our new instructional program, Structures of Life Teacher Enhancement. This program gives you a free field-based, instructional manual that supports concepts presented in the Structures of Life Module. This new Structures of Life Teacher Enhancement Manual includes lots of fun, cross curricular activities, projects, games, fact sheets, craft activities and a teacher resource section that lists reading resources and websites. The concepts presented extend an understanding of structures of organisms, adaptations, biodiversity and conservation of organisms to meet the challenges presented by the Structures of Life Module.

Explore the Brandywine Zoo

During this workshop participants will participate in pre-visit, visit and post-visit zoo activities. Teachers can use this knowledge in the classroom during animal, habitat, conservation, biology and ecology related units. It will also provide them with a field trip resource and an on-site zoo program resource that enhances their standards based units, particularly science. Visiting Delaware's only zoo offers teachers an opportunity to learn about what a valuable teaching resource the zoo can be.

Zoo Careers Loan Kit

Zoos aren't just for zookeepers any more. Zoos employ a wide variety of people in animal careers, business, horticulture, and education. Help your class explore these interesting options. This kit includes video, fact sheets, activities and bulletin board materials.