What's a bear to do when the weather is unbearable? What does it take to survive? Join us at the Zoo to discover the bear necessities.

Kindergarten standards: K-2.1, K-2.5*, K-4.2, K-4.3 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)

The animal kingdom is full of working parents and wild children. Sound like your house? Some animal parents stick around, while others lay eggs and then leave town. Investigate the cycle of life and the parents who make it possible.

Kindergarten standards: K-1.3, K-2.3, K-2.4, K-2.5, K-5.1

Fur, feathers, or scales? You can tell a lot about an animal by looking at the skin they're in. Explore the prickly, fuzzy and slippery world of animal classification through biofact exploration and live animal encounters.

Kindergarten standards: K-1.1, K-3.1*, K-5.1 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)

Get swept up in the Great Migration through wild Africa! This safari adventure winds through grassy plains of Serengeti, into tropical rainforests of the Congo, and along sandy desert paths of the Sahara. Discover how amazing animals survive in this world within the world.

1st grade standards: 1-2.5, 1-2.6
2nd grade standards: 2-2.3, 2-2.4

Food fight! Animals must eat to live. Figure out who is eating who and find out where all that energy goes. Dig into the food web through biofact exploration and live animal encounters. Follow an animal's life cycle from beginning to end in the circle of life.

1st grade standards: 1-2.1, 1-2.5, 1-3.2
2nd grade standards: 2-2.1, 2-2.3, 2-2.4, 2-2.5

Tish Rabe's book for Dr. Seuss asks, "Is a Camel a Mammal?" We have the answer. Whether it has fins, fur or feathers, you can tell a lot about a critter by its covering. Join us at the Zoo to discover that animals have class.

1st grade standards: 1-1.1
2nd grade standards: 2-2.1*, 2-2.2, 2-2.5* (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)

I have a bone to pick…or do I? Join us at the Zoo to explore a group of animals that makes up 95% of life on Earth. They may be spineless, but they're not wimps—make no bones about it!

3rd grade standards: 3-2.2*, 3-2.5* (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)
4th grade standards: 4-2.1*, 4-2.3*, 4-2.5 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)

Outplay, outwit, outlast; for animals, survival is not just a game. In the world's harshest places, animals must use more than their heads to carry on. Adaptations let some creatures take the lead to become wild survivors. Observe animal visitors that are specially adapted to life in tough places.

3rd grade standards: 3-1.1, 3-2.2, 3-2.3, 3-2.4
4th grade standards: 4-2.1, 4-2.2, 4-2.4

Maybe they're born with it? Animals depend on their adaptations to survive. Some get skills by their own wits and some get them from their parents. Which animals are a "chip off the old block"? Distinguish inherited from acquired adaptations through animal encounters and active learning.

3rd grade standards: 3-1.1, 3-2.2, 3-2.3, 3-2.4
4th grade standards: 4-2.2, 4-2.4, 4-2.5

Follow the clues to solve a wild crime! Try your hand at forensic science to observe and categorize evidence about animals. Interactive scientific skill stations and animal encounters can help you provide wild justice.

5th grade standards: 5-1.4, 5-1.6, 5-2.4
6th grade standards: 6-1.1, 6-1.2, 6-1.3, *6-3.1 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)

It's a tough world out there. Don't blame me if I use paws, claws or even chemicals for survival. As an animal or plant, I may have an alarming strategy to survive but after all, it's in my own defense.

5th grade standards: 5-2.4, 5-2.5
6th grade standards: 6-3.2, 6-3.4*, 6-3.5 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)

Classification can be taxing, but we can help! King Phillip keeps it all straight. Join us at the Zoo for a little tax-onomy relief!

5th grade standards: 5-1.6*, 5-2.4 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)
6th grade standards: 6-2.2, 6-1.3, 6-3.1* (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)

It takes more than good looks to survive in the wild. Animals have to out compete, outwit and out play to survive. Tour the Zoo with us to find out how behaviors help animals survive and what enrichment is all about!

Program is tour-based.

6th grade standards: 6-3.2, 6-3.4, 6-3.5, 6-3.6
7th grade standards: 7-4. 7.4.1
High School standards: B-1, B-3.6, B-6.1

Around the world in 80 days? Explore the world's biomes with us in just 45 minutes. Your around-the-world adventure will take you to places like the grasslands of Africa, taiga of Russia and rainforests of Southeast Asia, but get you back in time for lunch.

Program is tour-based.

6th grade standards: 6-3.4*, 6-3.5* (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)
7th grade standards: 7-4.1, 7-4.2* (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)
High School standards: B-5.3, B-6.1, B-6, B-6.2, B-6.5

Some celebrities make the "A" list; some animals make the "E" list. Making the list is great for celebrities, but not for animals. Tour the Zoo to see animals that have made the list and animals that have made it off the list. Find out what Riverbanks is doing to get animals off the list and to help prevent animals from making the list in the future.

Program is tour-based.

6th grade standards: 6-3.4*, 6-3.5*, 6-3.6 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)
7th grade standards: 7-4.1*, 7-4.2, 7-4.3*, 7-4.6 (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)
8th grade standards: 8-2.7
High School standards: B-5.3, B-6.1, B-6.2, B-6.6* (*Indicates partial completion of the standard.)