Whether you are a classroom teacher, home schooling parent, museum or informal science educator, the Zoo’s Education Department curriculum workshops are geared to help you engage your students in environmental education.
Upcoming Workshops:
Project Learning Tree: Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity & Green Jobs Teacher Workshop
Saturday, February 25th, 2023*
9am -12pm (3 hours) at the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens
This workshop registration is closed.
All Participants will receive the Project Learning Tree's Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide and Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers after the completion of the virtual and in-person training.
*Prior to attending this in-person workshop, registered attendees will receive an online access code to complete a portion of the training virtually. The virtual portion requires approximately 2 hours and is required to be completed before the Feb. 25th in person training at the Zoo.
Explore Your Environment: K-8 Activity Guide includes 50 hands-on, multidisciplinary activities to connect children to nature and increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about their environment. Activities include detailed step-by-step instructions, academic correlations, time and material requirements, and corresponding student worksheets with green career connections. This supplementary curriculum is designed to develop students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Project Learning Tree’s Green Jobs: Exploring Forest Careers unit includes four hands-on, NGSS aligned, instructional activities to help youth research forestry jobs, and practice managing and monitoring forest resources.
This workshop registration is closed.
The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Education Staff are trained facilitators on the following national curriculums:
If you have a group of educators (minimum 10) and would like to schedule a private workshop please contact education@jacksonvillezoo.org or call 904.757.4463 ext 202
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