CAREER WORKSHOPS
MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL GROUPS
TEACHERS & GROUP LEADERS:
Inspire your students with a once-in-a-lifetime look into the life of a zoo professional. Whether it is the keepers or vets that care for the animals, or the teams that designs the new exhibits, each job at the zoo is important. These activity-based, hands-on programs are the perfect way to inspire a group of future animal scientists.
Who: Groups of 10 to 30 students (school groups, scout groups, clubs)
When: Weekdays, Sept-April (weekends are possible, call 303-376-4885 to arrange)
What: See list of topics to choose from below
Time: 2-4 hour workshops are available. For 2 hour workshops, choose one topic
from the list below; for 4 hour workshops, choose two topics.
Cost: $250 per 2 hour workshop; maximum 30 students.
$475 to combine two, 2 hour workshop topics for 4 hours of programming;
maximum 30 students
Cost for custom workshops will vary.
Scholarships are available through Denver Zoo's Red Apple Fund.
Register: Register online at least 3 weeks prior to the requested program date.
Upon receipt of your online registration request, we will do our best to honor your date requests. You will receive confirmation in the mail when your registration has been completed. A 1:10 chaperone ratio is required for all middle and high school programs. If you have further registration questions, please email registration@denverzoo.org
Available Topics:
All topics include hands-on activities, live animal demonstrations, guided zoo tours, and thought provoking discussions about animal-related careers.
- Veterinary Health Nut: Delve into veterinary and nutrition careers
- A Day in the Life of a Zookeeper: A detailed and realistic look into the career of zookeeping
- Tools of the Training Trade: An engaging overview of how keepers train the animals in their care
- What Exhibit Designers Do: Learn how we plan exhibits for animals, staff and visitors to enjoy
- Careers in Environmental Education: Discover what it’s like to be an animal or environmental educator
- The Professional Primatologist: A detailed look at the job of working with and studying primates (monkeys, apes, etc.)
- Careers in Wildlife Research: Learn about the exotic life of a wildlife research professional
- Workin’ on the Wild Side: A broad overview of animal and zoo careers
If the above list does not meet your needs, consider designing a custom workshop!
Custom Programs
Work with Denver Zoo educators and experts to boost your middle or high school program of study with a unique career workshop created to meet your specific curricular needs. Workshops will be designed to meet a variety of career exploration and transition services topics, and can even be designed for younger or older audiences!
- The following components can be incorporated into a zoo workshop:
- Interaction with live animals and biofacts (animal specimens) in the workshop classroom
- Guided tours of the zoo
- Animal observations/data collection in the zoo
- Guest zoo staff speakers
- Lectures and discussions
- Hands-on activities in the workshop classroom or in the zoo
Service Learning
For an additional charge of $100, we can add a one-hour animal enrichment focused service-learning program to any workshop. Students will learn about animal enrichment and will create enrichment items (toys) for our zoo’s animal residents.
Denver Zoo offers career, science and volunteer programs for individual teens, too. Click here to learn more!
Denver Zoo thanks the generous support of the following donors:
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