TEACHER WORKSHOPS
Add life to your lessons!
Get the support you need to bring dynamic animal science, environmental awareness and much more to your students. All workshops are designed to highlight inquiry learning, to meet proficiency outcomes and to provide environmental activities that are ready to take back and implement.

Register now:
• to learn how to use the Zoo to meet proficiency outcomes.
• to gain great ideas and activities for your teaching.
• to network and share with other educators
• because it will be as enjoyable for you as it is valuable.

Click here to download a teacher workshop registration form.

Upcoming Workshops

WORKSHOPS

New! The Toledo Zoo will come to you for professional development!
Is it difficult to get to workshops hosted at the Zoo? Our education staff will come to your school or administration offices and bring activities, live animals and biofacts, information and indicator-aligning ideas to help make your science teaching easier and help you to better meet science standards.
NOTE: Arrangements for outreach workshops must be made at least one month in advance. As a limited number may be offered, this is first-come-first-served.

GENERAL TOPICS
Using the Zoo as a Teaching Resource—1 hour—FREE!
The cost for other programs is $50 per hour
Adaptations               Africa
Animal Classification    Endangered Species
Food Chains               Rainforests

Days, times and lengths of workshops are arranged to fit with your teaching schedule. Workshops can be 1, 2 or 3 hours long. Other topics may be planned with sufficient notice and available expertise. Be sure to ask!

TEACHER WORKSHOPS
Frog-Friendly Education
Saturday, May 3, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Leap into this professional development opportunity that will prepare you to become an amphibian authority in the classroom.
• Learn about frogs from Toledo Zoo herpetologists who will share some of the amazing research projects and conservation work going on here at the Zoo.
• Tour the new Amazing Amphibians exhibit with a herpetology keeper as your guide.
• Enjoy breakfast at the Zoo
• Receive great cross-curricular resources and ideas for your classroom.

$20 per participant. All teachers MUST pre-register.

NOTE: Registration for all workshops is by mail or FAX only.
MAIL: Toledo Zoo Education Department, Workshops
P.O. Box 140130
Toledo, OH 43614
FAX: 419-389-8670

Click here to download a teacher workshop registration form.

ZOO LESSON PLANS ONLINE
Are you a teacher looking for a good science lesson to use with your class? If that’s the case, you’ve come to the right place. The Toledo Zoo Education Department is offering free downloadable lessons on a variety of life science topics. Each lesson is formatted in the 5-E format, an inquiry based, constructivist model that is widely regarded by science educators. Additionally, every lesson is accompanied with a checklist of the National Science Standards linked to the lesson, so you can be sure that the lesson will help you meet your classroom goals. A new lesson will be posted each month so you’ll have something new to look forward to. Finally, all past lessons will be archived for you to refer to again and again. Have fun and watch for new postings each month.

Arctic Lesson: Polar Bear Aware

CERTIFIED INTERPRETIVE GUIDE WORKSHOP
Are you interested in becoming a Certified Interpretive Guide (CIG)? Attend a four-day National Association for Interpretation (NAI) workshop at The Toledo Zoo. The goal of this workshop is to provide consistent, high-quality training for people who have had little or no opportunity to learn about interpretation or who want a refresher course on the basics of presenting interpretive programs. After attending the workshop and passing the CIG test, you will be sent a certificate of completion and be CIG certified through NAI. Call Nicole Costello at 419-385-5721, ext. 2089 to register.