Self-guided Excursion
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Design your own zoo learning experience using real animals and habitats.
A self-guided excursion offers a flexible and real-world learning experience for your students. If you would like to add a workshop with a Zoo Teacher to your visit, this is free with zoo admission.
Support for teachers
- Great day at the zoo - access to trails and scheduled keeper talks
- Teacher resources with classroom and excursion activities
- Pre-visit information to support planning and preparation
- Opportunity to celebrate learning and become a Fighting Extinction School
Choose your experience
The teaching guides below will help you design your own zoo program. Unique activities are suggested for the classroom and at each zoo. Melbourne Zoo also offers an Ethics and Conservation at Melbourne Zoo for Levels 3-10.
Healesville Sanctuary
Explore the trails of this bushland haven for native wildlife in the Yarra Valley.
Teaching guide - Foundation-Year 2
Teaching guide - Levels 3-6
Teaching guide - Levels 7-10
Healesville Sanctuary map
Want to know more? Join an online Teacher Information Session.
Kyabram Fauna Park
Explore the trails of this bushland and wetland sanctuary for native wildlife.
Teaching guide - Foundation-Year 2
Teaching guide - Levels 3-6
Teaching guide - Levels 7-10
Kyabram Fauna Park map
Want to know more? Join an online Teacher Information Session.
Melbourne Zoo
Explore the trails of this global zoo. Here are two types of support for your self-guided excursion:
1) Animals and their habitats:
Teaching guide - Foundation-Year 2
Teaching guide - Levels 3-6
Teaching guide - Levels 7-10
Melbourne Zoo map and itinerary
2) Ethics and Conservation - in partnership with Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools:
- Levels 3-4: contested meaning of the concept of fairness
- Levels 5-6: contested meaning of the concept of happiness
- Levels 7-8: contested meaning of the concepts of freedom and harm
- Levels 9-10: ethical problem and different modes of philosophical thought that can be used to develop a viewpoint
Teaching guide - Ethics & Conservation - Levels 3-4
Teaching guide - Ethics & Conservation - Levels 5-6
Teaching guide - Ethics & Conservation - Levels 7-8
Teaching guide - Ethics & Conservation - Levels 9-10
Melbourne Zoo map and itinerary
Werribee Open Range Zoo
Explore the trails and enjoy a wildlife safari adventure in Melbourne’s west.
Teaching guide - Foundation-Year 2
Teaching guide - Levels 3-6
Teaching guide - Levels 7-10
Werribee Open Range Zoo map
Planning your visit
The Plan Your Visit page has costings, risk assessments, payment information, travel details, sensory maps and social stories.
Your excursion will be outdoors. Please ask your students to dress for the weather.
Book your education experience
Use the online form to book your visit.
Make booking nowWhen you book, please include:
- Name of program
- Preferred date/s
- School name and address
- Contact details of organising teacher
- Number of students/classes and year level