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Student in uniform looks down at Helmeted Honeyeater at Healesville Sanctuary.
STEM Year 5-6
Melbourne Zoo | Year 5, Year 6
Students use design thinking to develop solutions to the challenges our scientist face when working with threatened species in the wild.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 5-6 Science and Design & Technologies
Group of students in blue school uniforms doing fieldwork with clipboards, by examining the Kangaroos.
STEM Year 7-8
Melbourne Zoo | Year 7, Year 8
Students use design thinking to develop solutions to the challenges our scientists face when working with threatened species in the wild
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 7-8 Science and Design & Technologies
Western Lowland Gorilla Kanzi sitting up on a log and looking back over her shoulder, smiling to the camera.
Evolution and Natural Selection Year 9-10
Melbourne Zoo | Year 9, Year 10
Explore evolution through natural selection by building an understanding of how animal adaptations, variation in a population and selection pressures can lead to a new species.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 9-10 Science
Two teen school girls dressed in blue chequered uniforms smile as they look at a lemur who is eating a piece of fruit on a platform.
VCE Biology Unit 4
Melbourne Zoo | VCE
Analyse, compare and contrast living primates to reveal humans’ closest living and extinct relatives, evolutionary trends and what it means to be classified as Homo sapiens.
Links to VCE Biology Unit 4
A secondary student smiles as she looks at a Butterfly on her shoulder.
VCE Biology Unit 2
Melbourne Zoo | VCE
Use real-world examples to explore how scientists are helping the conservation of threatened species. Collect data to determine how a species’ adaptations enable it to interact and survive within its ecosystem.
Links to VCE Biology Unit 2
A young girl in a purple jacket bending down on the ground.
Early Childhood
Melbourne Zoo | Early Childhood
Through song, story and nature play pedagogy, children will explore the natural world and experience ways to care for the environment and animals.
Links to Victorian Early Years and Development Framework (VEYLDF)
A woman blows bubbles while grinning.
VCE VM - Unit 4
Melbourne Zoo | VCE Vocational Major, VCAL
VCE VM - Unit 4 will support you in the creation of real community projects with your students to help local wildlife.
Links to VCE Vocational Major Unit 4
A silhouette of three students as they look into a blue tank of water with a Fur Seal swimming in the distance.
Conditions for Survival Year 5-6
Melbourne Zoo | Year 5, Year 6
Students will investigate how the physical conditions of the environment affect the growth and survival of living things and how they are interconnected. They will develop an understanding of how to create positive change in their local community.
Links to the Victorian Curriculum Levels 5-6 Science and Geography
Rear view of a female student's hands holding long blades of grass, seen from her right.
Features, Life Cycles and the Environment Year 3-4
Melbourne Zoo | Year 3, Year 4
Through the lens of the seasonal calendar of the Kulin Nation, students will develop their understanding of the dependency between living things and their environment. They will take away skills to incorporate sustainable practices in their own lives.
Links to Victorian Curriculum Levels 3-4 Science and Geography
A Zoo employee shows two teen students, dressed in white and red school uniforms, a piece of pumping machinery.
VCE VM - Unit 2
Melbourne Zoo | VCE Vocational Major
Connecting Community with Conservation supports students to identify an environmental issue, consider different perspectives of key stakeholders, and discover how they can help wildlife through a community based activity.
Links to VCE Vocational Major Unit 2