Education
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Dublin Zoo welcomes over 65,000 learners a year. Our experienced and passionate Discovery & Learning team have in-depth experience in planning and delivering a range of preschool, primary, secondary and further education programmes, designed to reflect the current needs of your curriculum. We offer both face-to-face and virtual learning programmes.
School Visits
Dublin Zoo welcomes over 65,000 learners a year. Our experienced and passionate Discovery & Learning team have in-depth experience in planning and delivering a range of preschool, primary, secondary and further education programmes, designed to reflect the current needs of your curriculum. We offer both face-to-face and virtual learning programmes.
Pre-school Learning
The early years are an important stage in children’s lives when they find out about and make sense of their surroundings by interacting with others and their environment. Linked to the Aistear curriculum strands Exploring and Thinking, Dublin Zoo offers two exciting and interactive preschool programmes that help children make a connection to the natural world: Dinosaur Detectives and Who’s Who at Dublin Zoo?
Primary School Learning
The Discovery & Learning Department at Dublin Zoo has an exciting range of SFI Curious Minds accredited programmes for primary schools. Designed to tie in with the Living Things and Environmental Awareness and Care strands of the SESE curriculum, our unique sessions aim to give students from junior infants to sixth class a greater appreciation for nature and to empower them to take action to protect wildlife.
Secondary School Learning
Spanning topics from evolution to sustainability to ecology, secondary school programmes at Dublin Zoo offer a wide range of topics tied to the national curriculum. Get your class out and about in the zoo for some interactive and motivating learning experiences.
QQI and Third Level Learning
Dublin Zoo delivers Level 5 and Level 6 QQI courses for Animal Care, Animal Science, Animal Management and Tourism.
Programme options for QQI and Further Education include Animal Behaviour and Care, Conservation, Ecology, Habitat Design and Sustainability. We can also provide tailor-made modules to suit your needs.
