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ZOO TROOP
Learning and growing is fun at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden! These 4-week series encourage the development of important skills and values that will allow your child to interact with peers while fostering knowledge and respect for wildlife and wild places. Through age appropriate, skill and wonder-building hands-on activities, close encounters with animals, Zoo hikes, and child-led projects, children learn biological concepts and become curious to explore the world around them and find their own answers. Come to Zoo Troop, where children can let their imagination run wild!

Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday. See class descriptions for current series content. All programs include acitivities in the classrooms, ambassador animal encounters, and Zoo hikes. Older classes usually have a series project/presentation. Toddler and PreK attend with an adult. Kindergarten-8th attend independently. 
Toddlers Sensational Senses
Regular Price: $105.00
Member Price: $90.00
For 18-36 months olds
Can you smell as well as an aardvark or hear as well as a bat-eared fox? Animals use their senses in incredible ways to explore their world - just like we do! From seeing with eyes of all shapes and sizes, to sniffing with powerful noses, to feeling with toes, tails, or whiskers, animals have amazing ways to understand their surroundings. Discover how different animals use sight, smell, taste, and touch to survive every day.

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.
Toddlers Hoot and Holler
Regular Price: $105.00
Member Price: $90.00
For 18-36 months olds
“Raaa”, roars the tiger, “Quack”, calls the duck, “Sssss”, hisses the… cockroach. Animals sure do have a lot to say! Animals use their voices to communicate and their ears to listen. Explore the many ways wild animals talk to each other, from the familiar “moo” of a cow to the rumble of a rhino. Together, we’ll celebrate that every animal has a voice - and every voice matters!

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.
Pre-K Exploring Your World
Regular Price: $105.00
Member Price: $90.00
For 3, 4 and 5 years old not in kindergarten
From the low rumbles of elephants to the gentle touch of a gorilla mom, animals have many ways to share messages with one another. Some use sights and sounds, others use smells or even touch to say “stay away,” “come closer,” or “I’m here!” In this series, we’ll explore how animals communicate—through colors and expressions, calls and rumbles, scents and smells, and even grooming and gentle touches. Discover how animals find friends, work together, and survive by using their senses to talk without words.

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.
Pre-K Finding Friends
Regular Price: $105.00
Member Price: $90.00
For 3, 4 and 5 years old not in kindergarten
From the low rumbles of elephants to the gentle touch of a gorilla mom, animals have many ways to share messages with one another. Some use sights and sounds, others use smells or even touch to say “stay away,” “come closer,” or “I’m here!” In this series, we’ll explore how animals communicate - through colors and expressions, calls and rumbles, scents and smells, and even grooming and gentle touches. Discover how animals find friends, work together, and survive by using their senses to talk without words.

Note: Plan for one adult to stay with your child during these classes.
Kindergarten Say What
Regular Price: $110.00
Member Price: $95.00
What do colorful feathers, fancy foot work, squawking, and poop all have in common?! Most animals may not be able to “talk” in the same way that we do, but they sure do know how to communicate with each other in a diversity of ways! We’ll meet these unconventional “talkers” up-close and use our senses to figure out what kind of messages they are trying to share.

Note: Children attend this series independently.
Kindergarten Bio-Buddies
Regular Price: $110.00
Member Price: $95.00
Can a moth and a sloth be buddies? Can a tree and a bee be friends? Why not? Many animals have unusual friends. These partnerships show how animals and nature work together. Uncover how animals help each other and how these friendships fit into the balance of nature.

Note: Children attend this series independently.
1st-2nd Grade Extreme Senses
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
An owl can hear a mouse rustling over 100 feet away, a bear can sniff out food from miles off, and a butterfly can taste with its feet! Animals experience the world in ways that seem almost superpowered to us. Come discover how creatures big and small use their senses to survive, explore, and thrive. Some of the world’s coolest critters have the most amazing senses!

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks  
1st-2nd Grade Secret Messages
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
Shhhh! Some animals are masters of secret communication. From the biggest beasts to the tiniest insects, these clever creatures share messages in whispers, wiggles, and even colors - no sound required! Come uncover how animals “talk” without saying a word..

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks  
3rd-4th Grade Eye Saw That
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
Do you see eye to eye with wildlife? Maybe, maybe not! Animal eyes are adapted to perceive their world and tell them important information to help them survive. Not all visual cues are important to all species and not all things look the same to all animals. We will learn about how different species use their uniquely adapted eyes and their sense of sight to see their world and how this sense helps them to meet their needs and survive in the world.

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks
3rd-4th Grade A Tails Tale
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
A rudder, a signal, a balancer, a breaking system - tails serve all sorts of interesting functions. We will look at the science and the structure of tails and who uses them for what, the clues a tail can tell about an animal's lifestyle, and the tools that we use to help make up for not having a tail ourselves.

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks
5th-6th Grade Call Me Maybe
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
Can you tell the difference between an alarm call and a friendly vocalization just by hearing it? How does an animal's color send a silent message? What does it really mean when your cat rubs its head on you? Scent, color, sound - animals use many methods to share information with their friends, foes, and neighbors. We will explore the important role that animal communication plays both within and between species. We will even look for and recognize the meaning of some common animal communications, and uncover the power of our own words and voices by sharing what we learn with our friends and family.

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks  
5th-6th Grade Habitat Heroes
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
What do an alligator, a panda, and a frog have in common? They’re nature’s guardians! Some animals act as early warning signs when their homes change, others keep ecosystems running smoothly, and a few provide protection for countless creatures around them. Come find out which amazing animals fill these roles.

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks  
7th-8th Grade Animal Instincts
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
Finding food, shelter, and safety are essential for an animal's survival. What about things like play and vocalizations, though? How much of what animals do is learned, and how much is instinct? We will explore the roots and causes of some of the different behaviors that animals display every day as well as how these behaviors might differ between wild and captive animals.

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks.
7th-8th Grade Be Mine
Regular Price: $115.00
Member Price: $100.00
Love is in the air this month. From stinky pheromones to musical duets and gifts of food to elaborate dance routines, animals have interesting ways of finding and winning over a mate. We'll learn about the role that sounds, sights, and smells play in animals finding each other and some of the funny and strange things that animals do to win over a prospective partner. Discover the important role conservation science plays in helping love blossom in the animal world.

Dates: Choose to come every Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday for 4 weeks.
 
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