Curriculum

We work with local schools, colleges and education providers to offer unique animal and environment educational workshops. Invite Exotic Zoo to join you in your classroom, or join us at the zoo in our wildlife academy and entry into the zoo.

We have great links with land-based colleges for animal management courses whether this be post 16 education or Higher Education students, as well as working with the local council running workshops for NEATS, travel to learn and other working outside the classroom projects.

Our programs are tailored to cover all age groups, supporting the national curriculum, ensuring that the content delivered complements classroom learning. We focus on key areas such as science, geography, and environmental studies, making learning both fun and educational.

Think outside the box and choose Exotic Zoo to help with some less obvious lessons, like Art, Photography, and so much more! Why not invite us to be apart of your STEM events, open days or even a great treat for the end of term.

We pride ourselves in offering animal assisted therapy and interventions to children and adults with learning difficulties, the elderly as well as a whole host of hard to reach groups in and around the area.

Education

Educational Workshops

  • Caring For Animals

    What do animals need to live and survive? Such as food, water, warmth, shelter, sun, sleep, exercise and hygiene and how we can provide that for them. This workshop also looks at how animals reproduce and have babies, and includes animal food groups such as omnivore, carnivore, herbivore. Introducing a range of exotic animals from different habitats including rainforest, desert and grassland animals.

  • Minibeasts

    These include animals without a backbone - these are called invertebrates and there are lots of minigroups such as insects, molluscs, arachnids and myriapods. Explore all the different characteristics that allow scientists to group these different creepy crawlies, and learn how and why they have needed to adapt to ever changing environments

  • Animals Including Humans

    Explores how animals are grouped in many different ways for different things - including how they look and comparing animal body structures with our own, starting with invertebrates and then working along the classification of vertebrate animals including amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.. What they eat or what they need to be able to survive. Linking to human five senses and how animals use their senses.

  • Africa

    This huge continent has a wide variety of animals to offer. Discover the life of the most well adapted animals from the world's hottest desert, to the life of a river dwelling ambush predator. Home to some giant invertebrates, children can have the opportunity to hold some of the world's biggest Invertebrates as well as amphibians, reptiles and mammals.

  • Rainforest/Amazon

    An insight to the incredible biodiversity in this habitat, half of the Earth's plants and animals live in forests - rainforests are extremely important in the ecology of the Earth. This workshop explores different animals, the structure of a rainforest, how to look after the environment by sustainability and conversation. Meeting some amazing exotic rainforest predators lurking in the different layers hoping to catch some very well adapted and camouflage prey animals.

  • Habitats & Adaptations

    This looks at animals' home environments all over the world. Explore different habitats around the world and meet exotic animals from the rainforest, desert, grassland and woodlands. Identify the different features these exotic animals have which helped them to be able to adapt to the environment they live in

  • Careers

    Want to work with animals? Find out how to be come a zoo keeper, our education officer will tell you how they got to where they are today. There are lots of different career paths to working with animals from being a Zoo Keeper, Zoologist, Vet, teacher, science, kennels, farming and many more , find out all about them.

  • Lifecycles

    Looking at the life cycles of a wide range of exotic animals including invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. How animals eat and grow and defend themselves to be able to reproduce. Lifecycles look at each stage of a living thing and as they grow and survive.

  • Classification

    Identify key variations between the animals in different classifications. Pupils will meet various exotic species from a number of classifications (Mammals, amphibians, invertebrates, reptiles). Also focusing on both vertebrates and invertebrates.

  • Fossils

    Join us on a journey back in time, to learn about dinosaurs and how fossils tell us about the world they inhabited. Learn about fossils- What are they? And how they were formed. How scientists date and use them to teach us about dinosaurs.

    And then……………

    Explore our natural history museum with extinct animals spanning from the start of time up to the recent Dodo!

Our Wildlife Academy

Our unique and engaging wildlife academy is an amazing space for groups of people to meet some unusual species and learn all about them!

Join us in our Wildlife Academy here at Exotic Zoo for a really wild learning outside the classroom experience and enjoy the zoo while you are here.

Booking Information

To book an educational workshop or for more information, please contact us:

Phone: 01952 591164
Email: info@exoticzoo.co.uk

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