Age

Everyone

Animal Pop In Program 20-minutes for $100 

• Informational animal presentation featuring a single animal ambassador.
• [Pre-school and older] Focusing on colors, counting, textures & basic animal trivia for kids
• [Any age] This program can be catered for adults as a business meeting highlight.

PRE-KINDER: 

Happy Habitats
Plants & animals adapt themselves or their homes to find what they need to survive.

• What animals need to survive
• How animals change their environment to meet their needs
• Habitat/Ecosystem/Adaptation

Marvelous Movement
Animals have all kinds of different ways that they move around.

• How different animals move to get the things they need to survive.
• Different types of movement we see in the animal kingdom

1ST GRADE

Baby Beasts

Ready-to-run or just cracking out of an egg, ready or not, here they come. Baby animals emerge in different ways.

• Parent and offspring patterns of behavior to help offspring survive
• Young plants and animals are similar, but not exactly like their parents
• Vocabulary: Offspring/Predator/Nocturnal

Nature’s Problem Solvers
Who inspired the invention of airplanes, wet suits & LED lights? It is not who you think.

• Biomimicry-humans copying nature
• Adaptations to copy
• Vocabulary: Biomimicry/Adaptations

2nd GRADE

Adaptation Adventure
Plants & animals find or grow the things they need to help them thrive and sometimes even help each other.

• Animals find their food while dispersing seeds and pollinating plants along the way.
• Habitats where adaptations match their environment
• Pollination/Seed dispersal/Nutrients/Scat/Apiary

Animal Defenses 
Animals grow, wear or claim what they need to defend themselves against the elements & other wild creatures.

• Defensive properties & providing their intended purpose
• Matching defenses to the habitat
• Vocabulary: Defense/Adaptation/Ecosystem/Diversity

2nd GRADE

Diving into Biodiversity
In the depths of each ecosystem, a variety of life can be discovered.

• The variety of life in different ecosystems
• There is a pattern of biodiversity on the planet
• Vocabulary: Diversity/Ecosystem/Biodiversity/Equator

3rd GRADE

Habitat Hunting with Trait Tools 
Location, location, location that matches the clothes.

Animals choose homes that match their needs & abilities.

• Matching adaptations to habitats
• Adaptation traits inherited
• Adaptation traits chosen to enhance survival
• Animals group for enhancing survival
• Vocabulary: Environment/Habitat/Traits/Resources/Detrimental

Life Cycle Loop  
All animals emerge, grow, live, thrive and die in a never-ending revolution but not always in the same way.

• The variety of animal life cycles
• Variation can provide advantages
• Vocabulary: Precocial/Altricial/ 3 & 4-stage cycles

4th GRADE

Waves of Wildlife  
Experiments with erosion & waves caused by wildlife agents of change

• Burrows as a tool of erosion
• Wildlife Wavelength experiments; agents of change
  Vocabulary: Erosion/Burrow/Wavelength/Amplitude/Experiment

Sensational Adaptations 
Animals have secret abilities too. Some superpowers are hidden.

• Animal adaptations include enhanced senses
• Adaptations can be internal
• Vocabulary: Senses/Physical adaptations/Behavioral adaptations

5th GRADE

Fabulous Food Chains  
Om, nom-nivores are the ultimate energy recyclers.

• Energy cycles from the sun, to plants, to animals & then to decomposers & back again
• Categorizing animals by what they eat
• Vocabulary: Herbivore/Carnivore/Omnivore/Decomposer/Photosynthesis

The Water all Around Us

What can wildlife tell us about the water all around?

• The water cycle
• Wildlife as a water indicator
• Vocabulary: Precipitation/Runoff/Watershed/Indicator species

6th GRADE

Hand Me Down Genes  
Nature and nurture – parents and the environment determine how life grows.

• Environmental & genetic factors influence species growth
• Vocabulary: Genetic factors/Environmental factors/Climate change/Hybrid

Animal Attraction  
When it comes to a mate, animals also look for the best-dressed dancer.

• Plants & animals use reproductive success strategies to continue their “family tree”
• Attractive appearances & beneficial behaviors
• Vocabulary: Reproductive success/Resource availability