Brandywine Zoo Supports Home Educators!All Teacher Workshops opportunities are extended to adult Home School Educators!* * * * * * *
~ ~ October ~ ~Teacher In Service Day Friday the 9th 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.Enjoy an in-service program at the zoo! Learn all about the Brandywine Zoo and how to use it to enhance and enrich your classroom activities. You’ll also become certified to borrow our Cargo for Conservation, a suitcase loan kit chock full of endangered species products.
FeeFree for teachers
$5 for others.
Pre-registration required.
For more information or to register contact the Delaware Teacher Center
800-282-8770
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Take a Local Walk on the WILD Side!Saturday the 17th
1:00-4:00 p.m.Teacher WorkshopFocus: Indigenous/Exotic Plants and Animals
Learn about what’s in our own backyards! Begin this fascinating program by taking a walk through Wilmington State Parks and learning how to identify indigenous plants and animals. Then move to the zoo to take a walk on the wild side and learn about exotic animals and why they matter to us here in Delaware.
Teachers will learn some valuable teaching tools to educate their classroom children on indigenous and exotic plant and animal species.
Fee$5 per person
pre-registration required.
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302-571-7850 ext. 208
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Cargo for ConservationA Loan Kit at the Brandywine ZooThursday the 29th 5:30-8:30 p.m.Teacher WorkshopBring Wildlife Conservation to life with the Brandywine Zoo’s Cargo for Conservation Loan Kit. Topics of discussion will include: Being a wise consumer, making a good choice when choosing a pet, being knowledgeable about the wildlife trade and how it affects each of us. We’ll explore the contents of the kit which includes wildlife conservation activities and confiscated endangered wildlife biofacts such as an elephant tusk, python skin, crocodile purse, and much more! At the end of the workshop, teachers will be certified to use the Cargo for Conservation and best of all they can schedule the kit for use during the school year! Program takes place in the Brandywine Zoo’s Education Building.
Fee$5 per person
pre-registration required.
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302-571-7850 ext. 208
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~ ~ November ~ ~Exploring the Brandywine Zoo! Sunday the 8th 1:00-4:00 p.mTeacher WorkshopPublic, Private, and Home School Educators are welcome to attend this special workshop that showcases the Brandywine Zoo as a fabulous teacher resource. Get to know the Brandywine Zoo up close and personal, learn how to use it as part of your student’s curriculum!
Fee$5 per person
pre-registration required
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302-571-7850 ext. 208
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Color Your Classroom GREEN!Tuesday the 17th 5:30p.m. - 8:30p.m.Teacher WorkshopThis workshop is designed to help teachers learn better “
green” practices for themselves and their students. Teachers can use this knowledge in the classroom during animal, habitat, conservation, biology, ecology, social studies, math, and language arts 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.
Fee$5 per person
pre-registration required
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302-571-7850 ext. 208
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Nicole GoodsellEducation Outreach CoordinatorBrandywine Zoo1001 N. Park Drive
Wilmington, DE 19802
phone: 302-571-7850 x224
fax: 302-577-7480
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