OUTREACH PROGRAMS & DISTANCE LEARNING AT YOUR SCHOOL!
No bus? No problem! Invite Butterfly Pavilion to your classroom in person or via interactive video conferencing! We’ll share memorable, challenging, and rewarding learning experiences featuring interactive activities with live animals and/or specimens, models, and media. Check out our NEW offerings!
Butterfly Pavilion also offers after school enrichment programs. Email education@butterflies.org to learn more about customized series for your school. Scholarships available for qualifying schools.
Itsy Bitsy Bugs – Ages 2-PreK
Youngsters meet live bugs, including Rosie the tarantula (to see, not hold), through dramatic play and music, and use their curiosity to learn about bugs they may find outside at home or school.
Ages/Grades: Ages 2-PreK
Length: 30 minutes
Fee: $80/session; sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 20 students/session
Flutterby – Age 3-1ST grade (new age range)
As a whole group, students reveal how butterflies and moths differ by dressing up a student or teacher and studying preserved butterflies and moths. In an active metamorphosis game, students experience the amazing butterfly life cycle.
Ages/Grades: Age 3-1ST grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session; sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
NEW! Bug Bonanza – K–1st grade
Meet live bugs, including holding Rosie*, to discover how different types of amazing animals live in habitats near and far. Through role playing, movement and music, students experience the joy and wonder of the amazingly diverse world of invertebrates. *Must be at least 3 years old to hold Rosie.
Ages/Grades: K-1st grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session + travel, sequential sessions discounted
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 participants/session
Critter Classification – 1st-6th grade
In group activities, students work together to examine models and specimens, and observe live animals to identify arthropod characteristics and practice sorting critters into major groups: insects, spiders, and others.
Ages/Grades: 1st-6th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session; sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Metamorphosis Moves – 1st-6th grade
Led by a Butterfly Pavilion science educator and a Colorado Ballet dance educator, students dance and move to learn about the life cycle of a butterfly! Learners examine preserved specimens from every stage of the butterfly life cycle.
Ages/Grades: 1st-6th grade
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $200/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Incredible Invertebrate Adaptations – 2nd-5th grade
Invertebrates display incredible and almost unbelievable adaptations! At stations, using science process skills, live animals, specimens, and media, students investigate invertebrates and their incredible – and sometimes unbelievable – physical and behavioral adaptations!
Ages/Grades: 2nd-5th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Habitat Connections – 2nd-5th grade
Invertebrates live where they find habitat-food, water, shelter, and space-and they keep those environments healthy through habitat connections. Using live animals, media, and critical thinking, students uncover connections like predator, prey, decomposer, symbiosis, and more.
Ages/Grades: 2nd-5th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Bug Bites – 3rd– 8th grade
Bugs for dinner?! This program reveals how common bug-eating really is in our lives and in other cultures around the world. Journey with us as we travel across the globe, meet live animals, and – if you dare – even taste-test a bug! Bone(less) appétit!
Ages/Grades: 3rd– 8th grade
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $125/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Pollination Pals – 4th-6th grade
Invertebrates and flowers are intricately linked and the outcome is much of the food we eat! Using media, specimens, and science process skills, students decipher the relationships and adaptations of flowers and their diverse pollinators.
Ages/Grades: 4th-6th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Aquatic Invertebrates – 4th-8th grade
Student scientists explore adaptations and critical ecological relationships of key aquatic invertebrates. In small groups, students analyze real data to understand how environmental changes can impact aquatic invertebrates and ecosystems.
Ages/Grades: 4th-8th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .55/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Distance Learning Options:
Besieged Bees – 3rd-6th grade distance learning/virtual class
In this empowering program presented via interactive video conference, participants compare three types of bees, discover why bees are so important, investigate why bee populations are declining, and generate ideas to help bees and people! Finally, find out about how to be involved with bee conservation and research efforts.
Requires high-speed internet, laptop with web cam, projector and screen, or large screen TV.
Ages/Grades: 3rd-6th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session, sequential sessions discounted
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Monarch Mysteries – 3rd-6th grade distance learning/virtual class
Much is known about monarch butterflies, yet mysteries remain! Through interactive video conference, student scientists explore the monarch’s epic migration journey, identify challenges they face through their life cycle, and outline how to help bolster declining monarch populations. Finally, engage your students in authentic monarch conservation and research activities. Perhaps your learners will be the scientists who demystify lingering questions! Requires high-speed internet, laptop with web cam, projector and screen, or large screen TV.
Ages/Grades: 3rd-6th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $100/session, sequential sessions discounted
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Virtual Invertebrate Encounter – PreK-Adult distance learning/virtual class
Through interactive video conferencing, a featured invertebrate* is introduced with a story or activity and shown on camera. Then student scientists take the lead through inquiry, asking questions about the animal that set the direction for the remainder of this fun, back-and-forth session. *Choose from a list of invertebrate options.
Ages/Grades: PreK-Adult
Length: Up to 30 minutes
Fee: $100/session, sequential sessions discounted
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Afterschool Enrichment Series – PreK-6th grade
Butterfly Pavilion offers a series of engaging, play-based programs infused with science content and fun designed for youth groups, camps, childcare programs and schools working with youth K-6 afterschool or during school breaks. Contact education@butterflies.org to request options and pricing, which is based on number of dates and weeks.
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