Teacher Professional Development Workshops

Enjoy a workshop in one of Denver’s greatest classrooms, the Denver Zoo!  Meet keepers and animals up close and personal.  Go back to your classroom with great ideas for how to link the life sciences with all of your other curricular needs. 
All workshop participants receive Colorado School of Mines recertification credit.  Workshop and standards-based curriculum materials are provided.  All registration for teacher workshops is processed through the Denver Zoo. For more information, please call 303-376-4888 x3.  Please register here!



Wildlife Discovery
Grades K – 12
½ semester credit hour
Date:  September 27, 2008
Time:  8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuition: $85
Are you anxious to bring the wild world into your classroom?   Come to Denver Zoo to gather a variety of interactive animal activities incorporating math, literature, art, and science!  Discover wildlife and encourage your students to make amazing connections to animals from around the world.

Lions, and Wolves, and Bears…Oh My!
Grades K – 12
½ semester credit hour
Date:  November 15, 2008
Time:  8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuition: $85
Come to Denver Zoo and discover how carnassial “chompers” make Carnivores such unique and impressive mammals.  Through guided tours of the zoo, live animal demonstrations, expert talks, and hands-on activities, you’ll be top of the food chain when it comes to the Order that contains some of human’s most venerated animals--bears, felines and canines.

Register here for one of our Teacher Workshops.