Utah's Hogle Zoo
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Expedition Zoo To You: Polar Bear Stare
In this follow-along drawing activity, we’ll learn about how careful observation helps us to draw, and learn about the natural world. Scientists and artists use very similar skills when observing animals.
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Expedition Zoo To You: BUG JOBS
You may think bugs are gross, but they have important jobs to do! Learn all about them as you train to be a bug guidance counselor. Through live bugs and biofacts, we’ll meet with four career representatives – bugs that represent the important jobs bugs do in their ecosystems; pollinator, decomposer, predator, and food source.
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Expedition Zoo To You: Ele-fact or Fiction
Get ready to break out your trunks of truth and ears of doubt as you weigh in on some true or false elephant trivia to learn more about the world’s largest land animal. We’ll look at pictures, videos, biofacts (animal “artifacts” like bones, etc.) Depending on conditions, we may even take a trip through the zoo to go visit our elephants...
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Expedition Zoo To You: Cooking For Critters
Join us in the zoo kitchen to learn how we prepare food for the zoo animals. Each animal has a specific diet chosen for them by our vets, and then it’s up to the keepers, diet techs, and volunteers (aka zoo chefs) to prepare each diet to perfection.
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iSEE: Teacher Professional Development
Teachers will be offered training in Growing Up WILD. It is an early childhood education program that builds on children’s sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and the world around them.
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January 28, 2022
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iSEE:. Habitat Investigations
Our standards-based Habitat Investigations outreach program is designed to be an exciting complement to what teachers are doing in their classrooms. This 60-minute 2nd grade program focuses on students using science processing skills to explore two Utah habitats — wetlands and deserts.
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January 28, 2022
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Jan
Onsite School and Educator Programs: Climate Care Kit Workshop
Book our two-hour workshop to learn how to use our hands-on kit about climate change and Utah and Arctic ecosystems. *Kits can be found at some district offices. Contact Angelina Kump at [email protected] to locate the closest one to your school.
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January 22, 2022
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Onsite School and Educator Programs: Wild Aware Utah Kit Workshop
Join our two-hour workshop to learn how to use our hands-on Wild Aware Utah kit to teach about Utah native animals. *This class teaches how to use the kit. Kits can be found at your district office.
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January 22, 2022
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Onsite School and Educator Programs: Planting the SEEds of Conservation
Book this two-hour teacher workshop to learn how to use the zoo and our curriculum as a resource for your classroom.
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January 22, 2022
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Onsite School and Educator Programs: Growing Up Wild
Join our two-hour workshop to learn how to incorporate nature into the classroom for young learners. Participants will leave with a curriculum book, upon completion.
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January 22, 2022
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