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Teachers and Wildlife

Whether you are seeking to enrich your class field trip to the Zoo or Aquarium or a lesson in your own classroom, the Education Division of the Wildlife Conservation Society offers a wide range of opportunities to enhance science curricula for grades K–12. Our time-tested, teacher-endorsed programs include Distance Learning Expeditions, Wildlife Theater shows, and workshops for teachers and students that are aligned with the National Science Education Standards.

 

Distance Learning

Distance Learning For School Groups

Take your students on a trip to the zoo without leaving the classroom! Using two-way videoconferencing technology, the Bronx Zoo’s Distance Learning Expeditions bring live, engaging programs directly to your K–12 class. Programs include extensive teacher support materials.

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Online Professional Development

Through convenient online and hybrid in-person and online programs, we are reaching new audiences of busy educators. Courses include books, kits, and other educational materials to use in the classroom. Our online courses are also a great way for you to connect your students to educators around the country and throughout the world!

Professional Development

The Education Division of WCS offers teacher courses throughout the year, on weekends as well as during vacations, at all five WCS parks across the city. All courses provide new teacher credit and many can be taken for graduate credits from area colleges or P credits from the NYC Board of Education. 

School Programs

Zoo Programs

Enrich your class field trip to the zoo with an educational program. Our inquiry- and standards-based curricula take advantage of the Zoo’s naturalistic exhibits and allow students up-close encounters with animals from the Zoo’s unmatched educational animal collection in a supervised environment.

WCS / Fordham University - Master of Science Degree in Education

Earn your Master of Science degree in Teaching Adolescence Conservation Life Science with the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Fordham University Graduate School of Education offer a joint program leading to a Master of Science degree focused on professional development in the field of Conservation Life Science and Environmental Education.

General Donation

Help ensure a future for the earth’s most magnificent creatures and the habitats critical to their survival.

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How You Can Help

Speak out to save big cats, great apes, and ocean giants. Threatened wildlife can recover if we give them a chance.