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Zoo Field Trip Worksheet

Educational Zoo Field Trip Packet for Teachers, Home schoolers and Families!!  Whether you are going to the zoo with your family, friends, homeschooling group or school field trip, this packet will bring smiles to your students and children as they explore a day at the zoo.  I was driving in my car one day and I had some ideas that came to me about an upcoming zoo trip my family and I were taking with some friends.  I began to put together some really fun worksheets that have been tried and tested by my own kids!  I created 16 different animal worksheets that include a tracing animal name, an artist sketch box and some fun questions that the kids can answer as they learn more about each animal.  It is perfect for preschoolers through 2nd grade, but even my 5th grader had fun filling out the worksheets!

All you have to do is purchase the digital files for just $3 and print them on regular paper in color or set your printer to black and white.  Cut the pages in half and attach them to a small clipboard.  With a pencil in hand the kids are ready to explore the different animals found in the zoo!  It really was fun to see an idea form and then to experiment with it as I saw my kids spend a little more time looking at the animals and noticing more about them then just running from one animal to another.  The packet also includes 4 different bingo cards where the kids can cross off the animals as they find them.

To motivate your little ones to work on this fun packet, give them a small prize at the end.  A small animal toy that you can pick up at the dollar store or some animal crackers when they turn in their finished bingo and worksheets!  Here’s a sample of what is up for sale today for just $3.

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Our class studies zoo animals in the spring. As part of the study, our first graders go on a field trip to the zoo. We spend the entire day there. The field trip is always a first grade favorite. I created these zoo animal printables so the students could share about their favorite zoo animals.

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19 Homeschool Zoo Printables

Created On: July 31, 2017   |   Updated: August 21, 2023   |  

Whether you’re heading to the zoo on a field trip, r beginning a unit study on animals, chances are you’re going to be looking for some educational printables and activities to do with your homeschoolers. Below, I’ve linked to 19 of my favorite Zoo Printables. I hope you enjoy them too!

19 Zoo Printables

• 15 Zoo Math Sheets for PreK and Kinder
• Printable Zoo Animal Picture Cards
• K-2 “Wild about the Zoo” Printable Pack
• 4 great Zoo Printables in the archives at Preschool Printables by Gwen
• Detailed Zoo Animals Coloring Pages
• Zoo Bingo Game
• Zoo Scavenger Hunt
• Zoo Themed Math Game
• Another Zoo Scavenger Hunt
• Free Zoo Printables and Crafts Themed by Animal Species
• Zoo Color by Numbers
• Zoo Name Puzzles
• Zoo Animal Color by Number (search by animal name)
• K-2 Zoo Animal Word Search
• Printable Animal Puzzles
• HUGE Zoo Pack
• Zoo Animals Tracing Lines
• Roll and Move Printable Zoo Game
• Dear Zoo Pack

The next time you’re looking for some fun printable activities and games centered around a zoo theme, check back here! These are truly the best I could find! Let me know in the comments if you know of any others that you have enjoyed with your homeschoolers.

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Zoo Field Trip Activities

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Are you going on a zoo field trip? Spring is a great time to visit the zoo- the weather is starting to warm up and the school year is beginning to wind down. Here are some fun zoo field trip activities to do with your class before, during, and after the trip.

Before Your Zoo Field Trip

Create reminder bracelets for students to wear home..

You’ve likely sent TONS of emails, notes, and reminders about the field trip- send one more! Have students create a bracelet that reminds parents the field trip is tomorrow! This makes a great end of the day activity. Let students spend a few minutes coloring the bracelet and then tape them to their wrists.

Write about an animal they want to see on the zoo field trip.

Use this activity with your students the day before or even the morning of the trip. Have students draw a picture of an animal they want to see at the zoo and write about the animal. They could write facts about the animal, or why they love that animal.

Draw animals in their enclosures.

This activity is GREAT for the morning of the field trip. Field trip days are hectic! Let students complete this fun worksheet while you are busy greeting volunteers, packing coolers, and making sure everyone and everything is ready to go!

You can grab a free copy of this zoo field trip worksheet !

During the Zoo Field Trip

Hopefully you have some volunteers attending the field trip with you! I like to pack a large manila envelope for each volunteers’ group with some activities and supplies. Include items like a double-sided worksheet, pencils, a few crayons, and some bandages. Then I add a schedule and important information on the outside of the envelope.

Over the years, I found it was important for students to have a task or two to complete while they are on the trip. Otherwise, students would quickly “run” through the zoo (our zoo isn’t huge) and not spend much time with the animals.

Zoo Scavenger Hunt

A scavenger hunt is a fun way to keep students engaged! Have students see how many of the animals they can find at the zoo and check them off or color the animal pictures as they find them.

Observing Animals

We spend a lot of time teaching our students how scientists observe the world! The zoo is the perfect opportunity to practice their observation skills.

Students will watch for certain animal behaviors such as eating, sleeping, and playing. Students can draw and/or write about the animals they observed displaying these behaviors.

Reading About the Animals

Zoos are full of signs and graphics that give more information about the animals! Often, we quickly pass by this information and miss an opportunity for deeper learning. Have students spend some time reading about the animals. Then have students choose one animal to observe and write 3 facts they learned about that animal.

After the Zoo Field Trip

Your students will likely be TIRED after the field trip! A fun craftivity is the perfect way to end the day. It gives students an opportunity to reflect on their learning for the day and have a little downtime as well.

This project is a great way to end the day. Students fold the booklet and write about their trip. Students choose one of the nine animal toppers to color and add to the project. Hang the projects on a bulletin board or create a hall display!

You can find all of these activities, plus planning resources in my Zoo Field Trip packet!

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Thank you for your interest in booking a field trip to Woodland Park Zoo. Currently, the months of April, May, and June have limited space. If you are interested in coming to the zoo, we have space available earlier in the year. If you would like to be notified of any changes to our availability in April, May, and June. Please join our mailing list .

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• Be coming for an educational purpose (preK-12th schools, colleges, out-of-school camps, daycare centers and senior groups). If you are a homeschool group please reach out to us at [email protected] for information on home school days.  
• Make reservations at least three weeks in advance.
• Have a minimum of one adult chaperone (teacher or parent/guardian, age 21+) for every six students.  Groups of college age and older participants do not require chaperones.  Note:  Please do not include 1:1 aides/para-educators in your chaperone count. Please contact us for more information on 1:1 aides and chaperone requirements.
• Chaperone students (regardless of age/grade) at all times while on zoo grounds.
• Agree to follow Woodland Park Zoo’s  Rules of Conduct .
• Pre-pay by credit card at the time of registration, we are no longer accepting POs.

If you do not meet the above criteria, you may be eligible for the  Group Rate .

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Free Field Trip Worksheet Templates & Logs

Published: January 8, 2015

Contributor: Sarah Shelton

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Did you know that you can count your field trips as school hours or a even a full school day? I like to keep track of all of our trips with a homeschool field trip log and keep them in each student’s portfolio.

We like to track all of our field trips and add them to our end of the year portfolio. Not only does it document what we have learned it is fun to look back on and see the places we have gone. Then it becomes a scrapbook of sort.

I like to include any pamphlets, maps or educational handouts that we received at our field trips. This really helps add to the learning experience of the field trip.

Field trips enhance learning.

Field trips are amazing learning experiences. I enjoy finding field trips that accompany whatever we are studying in our homeschool. I make a point to make sure I plan a few learning field trips throughout the year that go with what we are learning.

It helps to make learning come alive for my kids. My older kids have fond memories of visiting historical sites, museums, zoos, even our local fire station. They learn so much when they can be immersed into a specific place or location.

Their senses are enhanced and they seem to soak up all of the information and retain it. I love watching their brains click when they can see something right before their eyes that we read in a book

Printable Homeschool Field Trip Logs:

If you are wanting to start tracking your field trips you must check out this list of field trip logs.

Printable Field Trip Log – There are two versions of this log. One that you can print out and write on, or an editable version where you can write directly on the computer. 

Field Trip Log – This field trip log has spaces for 11 field trips. You can record them by subject and by how many hours you spent on that field trip for that subject. 

Homeschool Field Trip Log – Simple log great for early elementary aged kids to record their thoughts about the field trip they just took.

Scrapbook Style Log – This log looks like a personal scrap book page and will look darling in a portfolio.

Student Field Trip Form – There are even spots for kids to draw pictures of what they saw and like best about the trip.

Printable Field Trip Journal – Your kids will get a chance to share what they did and did not like and even sketch a few things about their experiences.

Free Printable Field Trip Journal

Our subscribers have access to a field trip journal pack that is full of worksheets that you can use to record your homeschool field trips. You can download it as well as dozens of other homeschool freebies in our subscriber library . 

Field Trip Notebooking Pages:

Since I like to make sure most of our field trips are educational, notebooking pages are always a great idea. Do you take a whole day off from school to take a field trip? If so, then you can pull these notebooking pages out at the end of the day.

Your children will enjoy reflecting on what they have learned and recording it for “school”. 

Field Trip Reflection Notebook – This free notebook has portrait and landscaping field trip pages for your child to record in.

Zoo Fieldtrip Worksheets   A zoo is a popular field trip location. These individual worksheets and notebooking pages are for toddlers up through sixth grade.

Create your own Field Trip Notebook – Have your kids learn how to create and keep their very own notebooking journal just for all the fun field trips they will take.

Field Trip and Travel Journal – These notebooking pages create a wonderful keepsake to record what your children have learned and where they went, the places they traveled and what they saw along the way.

Virtual Field Trips:

Have you ever used the computer to go on a virtual field trip? With most of the world shutting down for a year, many families took advantage of virtual field trip opportunities. You won’t want to miss all these fun ideas!

List of amazing virtual field trips – This is a great list that also comes with printable virtual field trip logs and a map to mark where you have visited online.

10 Virtual Field Trips for Elementary Aged Children – Another great list of virtual field trips to take from the comfort of your own home. 

How to Make the Most of Virtual Field Trips – Be encouraged to take virtual field trips and find out how to turn them into amazing learning experiences in this article.

32 Virtual Field Trips for American History – Are you diving into American History this year? Use this list of field trips to add to your history learning experiences.

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23 Virtual Zoo Field Trips, Tours, and Zoo Cams That Get You Up Close to the Animals

Bring the zoo to you.

We love field trips, but sometimes organizing an excursion just can’t happen. Fortunately, we live in a time when technology can bring the excitement to us. The pandemic encouraged many zoos and aquariums to put in the effort to bridge the gap for visitors at home. As such, we’re able to share this list of 18 fantastic virtual zoo field trips, virtual zoo tours, and zoo cams you can enjoy from anywhere.

Best Virtual Zoo Field Trips, Virtual Zoo Tours, and Zoo Cams

San diego zoo.

The San Diego Zoo has a “Watch and Learn” section on its website. Here, students can check out the fantastic zoo cams including the burrowing owl cam, giraffe cam, elephant cam, and many more!

Atlanta Zoo

While the Atlanta Zoo’s zoo cam is dedicated to pandas, they offer many videos and activities that feature bird watching, sloths, lemurs, monkeys, and more!

Reid Park Zoo

Located in Tucson, Arizona, this zoo features a variety of delightful zoo cams designed to give kids a virtual zoo tour of the elephants, giraffes, grizzly bears, lions, and more.

Tembe Elephant Park

In a remote area of South Africa, you’ll find the Tembe Elephant Park. Renowned for having the largest elephants in the world, these zoo cams offer sights such as sand forests and wetlands, leopards, rhinos, and, of course, elephants.

GRACE Center

This extensive cam takes us inside the gorilla forest corridor in the Democratic Republic of Congo while connecting the habitat with the night quarters at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE).

Houston Zoo

Take a virtual zoo tour down to Texas and enjoy the live zoo cams set up by the Houston Zoo, allowing you to peer into the lives of giraffes, gorillas, elephants, and flamingos.

Explore the Arctic

Head to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, to witness the annual polar bear migration. Discovery Education has teamed up with Polar Bears International to host a series that explores some of the biggest questions about the Arctic.

Bring your virtual classroom to life with animals from the Oregon Zoo! The Wildlife Live videos are aligned to different subject content areas listed on the page. New videos are also posted regularly on the zoo’s social media channels. A few times every week, they also go behind the scenes for a live interview with animal-care staff. Each live video is accompanied by a kid-approved activity related to the featured animal .

PBS Zoo Field Trip

Let’s all go to the zoo with PBS LearningMedia! At Zoo Miami, Penny and the KidVision VPK kids wash rhinos, feed giraffes, study a zebra’s stripes, and ride a camel. Lions and tigers and apes, oh my!

International Wolf Center

The cool wolf-pack cam live-broadcasts the adventures of four ambassador wolves: Denali, Boltz, Axel, and Grayson. The exhibit stretches across 1.25 acres and includes two dens, a filtered pond, and a forested area.

San Antonio Zoo

While San Antonio Zoo virtual field trips aren’t free, they’re very engaging. Enjoy virtual encounters with okapis, hippos, rhinos, and more!

From a virtual zoo tour and chats with staff to showing what the animals are up to and posting activity ideas from their education and conservation teams, the Dallas Zoo’s Bring the Zoo to You web series is perfect for a virtual field trip!

Australia Zoo

Australia Zoo was the home of the late Steve Irwin, best known as the Crocodile Hunter. His wife, Terri, and children, Bindi and Bob, have continued his legacy. This fantastic YouTube channel offers captivating videos of some of the world’s most fascinating animals.

Smithsonian’s National Zoo

This virtual zoo field trip takes us to the nation’s capital. Check out animal zoo cams that share a glimpse into the daily lives of black-footed ferrets, naked mole rats, giant pandas, and more!

Chester Zoo

This British zoo has been going live on Facebook and YouTube to offer a fun and engaging virtual zoo tour packed full of fantastic facts and adorable animal antics!

Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has created virtual zoo tour resources to support children’s learning for grades pre-K–12. The site offers online courses, family-friendly science activities, crafts and printables, and fantastic video lessons (in English and en español) to help young learners who are excited about ocean animals.

Georgia Aquarium at Home

These wonderful guided virtual tours through Georgia Aquarium’s galleries allow you to explore the chilly unknown in Cold Water Quest , be immersed in a world of colors as a tropical diver , and more!

New England Aquarium Virtual Tour

Enjoy a virtual zoo tour of the New England Aquarium and check out the projects and activities available to both educators and families. New zoo cam videos premiere on Facebook , YouTube , and Instagram .

Folly Farm Sloth Cam

Witness the serene existence of Tuppee and Lightcap, two charming two-toed sloths residing in Sloth Forest, a habitat created as a comfortable “sloth retirement home.”

Aquarium of the Pacific Webcams

Peek into the lives of playful penguins, sleek sharks in the Shark Lagoon, the graceful sea nettles, the bustling Tropical Reef, the serene Honda Blue Cavern, and the intriguing Coral Predators. These webcams, complemented by resource kits, offer a vibrant, educational experience for all ages.

Cheyenne Mountain Giraffe Cams

Tune into the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s Giraffe Cams for a live peek into the lives of giraffes in the African Rift Valley exhibit. These cameras capture the giraffes as they roam, mingle, and interact with visitors hand-feeding them lettuce. It’s a ‘Way Beyond Watching’ experience that brings you up close with these majestic animals from anywhere in the world.

Clearwater Marine Aquarium Webcams

Dive virtually into the world of marine rescue at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Their live webcams offer glimpses into the new Ruth & J.O. Stone Dolphin Complex, home to rescued bottlenose dolphins in a sprawling 1.5 million gallons of Clearwater Bay’s filtered water. Additionally, explore more live cams like the Otter Cam, Pelican Cam, and Mavis’s Rescue Hideaway Cam for a closer look at other rescued marine animals.

Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo Webcams

Catch a glimpse into the daily lives of Beardsley Zoo’s beloved animals with their live webcams. Be sure to switch between the Indoor and Outdoor Red Panda Cams, the Spider Monkey Cams, and the River Otter Cam to see these creatures exploring their habitats.

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40 Amazing Educational Virtual Field Trips

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The San Diego Zoo started with a roar in 1916, when Dr. Harry Wegeforth was inspired to create a Zoo for the children of San Diego. This initial inspiration is at the heart of our more than century-long commitment to education, and especially to children.

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