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Melbourne Zoo | EAL, Early Childhood, Foundation, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, VCE, VCE Vocational Major, Tertiary
A unique, real-world learning experience exploring wildlife from Australia and around the world.
Suitable for students of all ages
Early Childhood
Melbourne Zoo | Early Childhood
Through song, story and nature play pedagogy, children will explore the natural world and experience ways to care for the environment and animals.
Links to Victorian Early Years and Development Framework (VEYLDF)
2 green tree frogs sitting on a log
Habitats, Features and Life Cycles F-2
Melbourne Zoo | Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
Students will become wild explorers for the day, learning about what makes animals special and how they can care for animals and their homes.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels F-2 Science
A young guest (accompanied by her family, off frame to the right) facing a Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo, preening their foot on a tree stump, in the Great Australian Aviary.
Special Development Schools Program
Melbourne Zoo | Foundation, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10
Wild Carers offers a non-curriculum aligned experience for students to engage with animals and learn about their care.
Suitable for students of all ages with a range of needs
Habitats, Features and Life Cycles Year 1-2
Melbourne Zoo | Year 1, Year 2
Join us in Melbourne Zoo's Wild Lab and become a Wild Scientist for the day exploring the form and function of different animals and how to respect and care for their environment.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 1-2 Science
Group of four students scaning items at the Zoopermarket while on excursion. Sign on the left saying "I want the choice" which is in relation to palm oil labeling.
Self-guided - Ethics and Conservation
Melbourne Zoo | Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10
Explore, examine and investigate the contested meanings of fairness, happiness and freedom through the lens of the animals who live at the zoo.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 3-10 Ethical Capability
A female zoo worker crouching and holding a torch while another woman looks out of a tent door flap.
Zoo Snooze Overnight Camp
Melbourne Zoo | Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10
Sleep overnight at Melbourne Zoo!
What happens at Melbourne Zoo after dark? Students will be engaged in an overnight “survival camp”, where they will get to know the animals of the Zoo as they have never known them before.
STEM Year 3-4
Melbourne Zoo | Year 3, Year 4
Students will apply their STEM knowledge, creativity and problem-solving skills to support the welfare of animals at Melbourne Zoo.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 3-4 Science and Design & Technologies
A close-up of a student, seen from behind, splitting grass with two other participants.
Features, Life Cycles and the Environment Year 3-4
Melbourne Zoo | Year 3, Year 4
Through the lens of the seasonal calendar of the Kulin Nation, students will develop their understanding of the dependency between living things and their environment. They will take away skills to incorporate sustainable practices in their own lives.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 3-4 Science and Geography
Adaptations and Features Year 5-6
Melbourne Zoo | Year 5, Year 6
Students can learn about an animal’s environment and behaviour through the power of observation, this can help us all to understand how we might help wildlife and fight extinction.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 5-6 Science and Geography