Explore more during your visit by adding either a classroom program or tour. Look at the age-level appropriate choices offered below.

Classroom Programs

Each 45-minute program includes animal ambassadors and hands-on activities for one interactive classroom-style program (30 students or less).

Preschool – Kindergarten

Animals Babies – Learn about some animals, their babies and how they care for them.

Living Things – Explore the differences between living things and non-living things and meet a few live animals.

Kindergarten – Grade 3

Backyard Wildlife – Take a tour through our Zoo Gardens area and learn about animals that live in different habitats around Ohio.

Fur, Feathers & Scales – Explore what makes birds, mammals and reptiles different.

Grade 4 – 6

What’s for Dinner? – Discover how the food web works and how animals interact with each other.

Endangered Species – Learn the difference between endangered and threatened animals and what the zoo does to help them. 

Grades 6 – 12

Wildlife Trade – Discover how different cultures relate to wildlife and how our decisions affect the whole world. 

Adapt and Survive – Explore the many ways animals adapt to their surrounding and see a few awesome adaptations up-close.

Genetics & Change – Discover how the zoo uses the principles of genetics for breeding zoo animals.

Zoo Careers – Meet a variety of employees at the zoo and learn what it takes to make a zoo run successfully.

Exhibit Design – Use mathematics and science to design your own animal habitats.

Zoo Classroom Fees*

Summit County

Single class/Consecutive classes      $55/$40

Outside Summit County

Single class/Consecutive class         $65/50

Behind the Scenes Tours

Travel to special areas of the zoo, which are not open to general visitors, to learn about how we operate a zoo.  You may see night housing or the animals’ kitchen.  There is always a surprise in store (For 30 people or less).

Fees*

Summit County

Single class/Consecutive classes     $75/$60

Outside Summit County 

Single class/Consecutive classes     $85/$70

General tours

Have you always wanted to know more about the animals at the zoo?  Join an educator for a personal tour of our animal exhibits.

Tiger Valley – Visit tigers, bears, gibbons and red pandas native to Asia.  Learn about their lives in the wild, and here at the zoo.

Legends of the Wild – Learn about snow leopards, jaguars, lemurs, bats and their amazing legends.

Fees*

Summit County

Single class/ Consecutive classes     $55/$40

Outside Summit County

Single class/ Consecutive class        $65/50

*All program and tour fees do not include admission or parking.  For information on on discounted group tickets, please see our Group Tickets Page. 

Homeschool Workshops

Conduct scientific inquiry-based research in this three-day workshop for 10-13 year old students.  Homeshool groups must register between 7-10 students and classes run from 9 am-noon.

Science of Scat – Become dung detectives and unlock the secrets of poop.

Inside Out  - Explore animal adaptations from the inside out.

Fees per Student

Summit County residents                $45

Non-Summit County residents         $50