Information
on Special Needs Teaching at Twycross Zoo.
Twycross Zoo Education Department can offer you lively, interactive
teaching sessions for your pupils.
A teaching session with our professional education staff can enhance
your school outing at the zoo. We can give presentations on a variety
of subjects aimed to tie in with the national curriculum.
Sessions usually last 30-minutes and are packed with interesting
information that engages the children.
During many of the sessions our Education Officers will be accompanied
by educational animals. Children remain focused on a subject or
task and the animals encourage students to vocalise their experience.
Multi-sensory sessions increase the learning potential by including
several senses at once. This aids the recall and the retention of
information. We offer sessions with sensory experiences, animal
contact and artefacts to touch. The nature of the sessions allows
children to learn through experiencing and brings the natural world
to life.
Sessions:
• Last 30 minutes (unless specially arranged with the education
department)
• As of 1st January 2006, price per group will be £15.
(Group maximum 30). This does not include your entry to the zoo.
How to book:
All bookings must be made through the main office. Please have the
following details at hand when booking a talk: Name of school/group,
contact name and phone number, age of pupils, number of pupils and
topic required.
Topic List
ANIMAL ENCOUNTER:
This session gives children a chance to meet and interact with many
of the Educational Animals.
ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS:
How are animals adapted to their environment? Find out about fascinating
animal adaptations in this interactive teaching session.
ANIMAL HABITATS:
What is an animal habitat? What kind of habitats do animals live
in? How are they suited to live there? All these questions are answered
in Animal Habitats.
RAINFOREST EXPLORER:
There are many animals the come from rainforests around the zoo
but only during our session can you get up close a personal to a
few of them.
A COLOURFUL WORLD:
This session explores how colour is used in nature and why there
is such a variety in animal skins and colouration.
A WORLD OF ANIMALS - CLASSIFICATION:
A fantastic session to introduce your pupils to the animal kingdom
and the variation within it.
ANIMAL SENSES:
Animals see, hear and feel in many different ways. This session
takes children into another animal’s world and explores what
experiences would be like for them.
WHO EATS WHO AND HOW!?:
Here pupils learn about what types of food animals eat and how they
are suited to eating it. They are also introduced to food chains
and how ecosystems all link together.
CONSERVATION AND ENDANGERED ANIMALS: Children will learn about
habitat destruction, pollution, hunting and the illegal pet trade
and how they are affecting the animals left in the wild. They also
examine a zoo’s role in the world today and what it will be
in the future.
ANIMAL CARE:
How do we look after our animals? What do we feed them? What do
we need to think about when taking on the responsibility of a pet?
And there’s more! Twycross Zoo can also offer you:
• FREE preliminary visits for teachers (just phone for an
appointment)
• Talks tailored to your course/syllabus
• Entrance discounts for students accompanied by a teacher
• All facilities accessible by wheelchair
• Hands-on specimens for booked sessions
• A variety of support material for more information
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