Digital Program | Wild Explorers - African Animals
Students will become Wild Explorers, learning about what makes animals special and how they can care for animals and their homes.
Program description
Each program includes a 30-minute online workshop with a Zoo Teacher and a teaching guide filled with activities for your scope and sequence. While not a tour of the zoo, you will have direct access to your own expert Zoo Teacher and unique zoo content.
Students will become Wild Explorers and learn how they can respect and care for animals. They will engage their senses and exercise their inquiring minds to learn about what makes animals special.
By the end of their mission into the wild, students will understand how special our animals are, how to care for them, the environment and how they can contribute to a sustainable future.
Students will learn:
- How living things grow and change
- The unique features and needs of various animal species
- How to respect and care for animals
Want to come face-to-face with our incredible wildlife and extend your students' learning in their environment? Book in an excursion to one of our three amazing zoos.
This program is also offered with an Australian Animals or Life Cycles focus.
Program sequence
Connect
Use the activities in the Teaching Guide (below) to spark students’ curiosity before their online workshop.
Connect and Understand
Students will have the chance to hear unique insights and discover what makes animals so amazing. With a Zoo Teacher, students have the opportunity to find out about animal features, habitats and survival needs through inquiry learning, unique zoo-based resources and guided discussions.
Understand
Use activities in the Teaching Guide to deepen students’ learning.
Act
Use the Teaching Guide to enable students to master their knowledge and skills in real-world contexts.
Program resources
Learning outcomes
Victorian Curriculum F-2
Living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs, including food, water and shelter, are met (VCSSU042)
- Through Zoo Teacher led discussions, animal observation and play-based learning students are able to explore animal features, habitats and survival needs
Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves (VCSSU043)
- Students will explore characteristics of living and non-living things through Zoo Teacher led discussions, animal observations and unique zoo-based resources
Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions (VCSIS051)
- Students will be encouraged to engage their senses: listening, observing, smelling and touching in order to explore living and non-living things
Online workshop details
Your online workshop will be hosted on Zoom.
All you need is a computer or device with internet access.
During the exclusive online workshop for your class, you will be able use the camera and microphone functions.
Students can also communicate with a Werribee Open Range Zoo Teacher by typing in the Chat box.
We will send out a link to join the program to the teacher that booked.
Join us ten minutes before your start time. Arriving early will enable us to check any tech issues and start your session on time.
Book now
Call 1300 966 784 to book an online workshop.
Credit card payment at time of booking. Cancellation must be made at least 10 business days prior to your booked workshop. If not, a cancellation fee of $180 will be invoiced.