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Colchester Zoo’s award winning Discovery and Learning department also offers a range of talks free of charge. If you need to discuss anything before booking online, please call Guest Services on 01206 331292 ext 227. If you need to discuss the resources available below with one of our education officers, please call the Schools office on 01206 331292 ext 251. |
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Animals from Different Countries
African Animals
Have you ever wondered what it is like in Africa or what animals live there? In this session you can find out the names of some of the more unusual African animals and interesting facts about them. After which time, you will be able to visit some of the African Animals we have here at Colchester Zoo. |
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South American Animals
What animals live in South America? What is the weather like? In this session you will be looking at the different South American animals and learn some new and interesting facts about them. You can then visit the enclosures with some South American animals to witness different behaviours.
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Asian Animals
Asia is the largest continent in the world. This surely means that it is home to the most animals, doesn’t it!? Book this workshop now to find out what animals can be found in Asia. What habitats there are and how some of these animals survive in these conditions! |
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Madagascan Animals
Have you seen the film Madagascar? Book this session now to find out what animals live on the island of Madagascar and the habitats that can be found there.
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Animals and their Habitats
An overview of Animals and their Habitats
For a general, brief description of rainforests, polar regions, savannah and desert habitats and how animals are suited to living there, book this session now! If however, you would like to focus on one habitat book one of the other talks listed below!
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Rainforest
What is it like to live in a rainforest? What animals can be found there? How do the animals survive and what is threatening their future? For a chance to answer all of these questions book this talk now!
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Under the Sea
What is it like below sea level? What animals can be found below sea level? How do they survive? This talk looks at aquatic animals including sharks, turtles, whales, dolphins using Finding Nemo as a learning facility! If you want questions to all of these answers, book this talk now.
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Animal Life Processes and Living Things
Food and Feeding
Do you want to study food webs? Why not look at an animal here at Colchester Zoo? Take a closer look at what a lion would be eating if it were in the wild! Or how loss of food has lead to dietary adaptations in some animals. A hands-on approach to diets!
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Animals and their young
All animals grow and reproduce in their lifetime! To answer the question of how, you get very different answers. Some hatch from eggs whilst others are carried inside their mothers and are live when born. Find out how to tell if an animal hatches an egg or carries its baby and the changes baby animals go through to become an adult.
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Animal Movement
A common feature of all animals is that they can move! This does not necessarily mean that they can all move in the same way. This talk focuses on mammals, birds, invertebrates, amphibians and fish and how they get from one place to another!
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Colour and Camouflage
Animals come in all different shapes, varieties, colours and patterns. Have you ever wondered why a zebra has stripes? Why a poison arrow frog is such a bright colour when it lives in the rainforest? Book this talk now to find out how colours and patterns help them to survive in the habitat they live.
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Endangered Animals
Endangered Animals and their Habitats
This talk looks at lots of different habitats and the creatures that live there. Some of these animals are facing the threat of becoming extinct, find out why this is and how we can work together to stop this process and help these animals.
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Workshops
Minibeast Workshop
This workshop offers children the chance to learn about invertebrates. They are taught how to handle and identify different types of insects and invertebrates, including stick insects, cockroaches and land snails.
Maximum 25 Children per session |
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Close Encounter Workshop
This workshop offers young children the chance to meet and touch a selection of domestic animals and minibeasts, encouraging the children to learn about animals and to treat them with care and respect.
Maximum 25 Children |
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Please note that all sessions are subject to availability from 1st January, 2010.
We also offer a range of encounters at some of the animal enclosures to get your pupils out and about around the zoo.
Please click here for more information |
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