OUTREACH PROGRAMS & DISTANCE LEARNING AT YOUR SCHOOL!
Reservations for School Outreach Programs will open on August 1.
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!
Itsy Bitsy Bugs – Ages 2-Kindergarten (expanded age range)
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-Kindergarten (expanded age range)
Length: 30 minutes
Fee: $65/session; sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 20 students/session for preK; 30 students/session for K
REVISED! 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 (new age range)
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $80/session; sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
NEW! 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. NOTE: This class replaced Bug Safari/Mobile, a show and tell program with little participant interaction .
Ages/Grades: 1st-6th grade
Length: 45 minutes
Fee: $80/session; sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
UPDATED! 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 butterflies and observe live caterpillars!
Ages/Grades: 1st-6th grade
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $200/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
NEW! 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: $80/session, sequential sessions discounted
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
NEW! 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: $80/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
Bug Bites – 3rd– 8th grade
Who eats bugs? We inadvertently eat bug parts, but around the globe, people rely on bugs in their diets! Students learn how other cultures appreciate bugs as food and may choose to taste-test a bug!
Ages/Grades: 3rd– 8th grade
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $125/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
NEW! 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: $80/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/mile round trip
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: 30 students/session
NEW! 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: $80/session, sequential sessions discounted
Travel Fee: .50/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
Through interactive video conference facilitated by Butterfly Pavilion’s science educator, expand your understanding of bees. In this empowering class, student scientists compare three types of bees, investigate the components of sample human meals that bees pollinate, investigate why bee populations are declining, and generate ideas to help bees and people! Finally, we’ll help you engage your students in authentic bee conservation and research.
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
NEW Virtual Invertebrate Encounter – PreK-Adult distance learning/virtual class
Through interactive video conferencing, a featured invertebrate* is introduced with a story 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 invertebrates options.
Ages/Grades: PreK-Adult
Length: Up to 30 minutes
Fee: $65/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.
Great for Family Events At Your Site!
Community Event Booth – All ages
Include Butterfly Pavilion in your next educational fair or event! Guests can stop by our booth to meet, touch and get to know some live invertebrates, ask questions, and learn tall about what Butterfly Pavilion has to offer! Does not include Rosie.
Ages/Grades: All Ages
Fee: $125 first hour + $50 for each additional hour+travel
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size: guests walk-up at will
NEW! Rosie Encounter – Age 3- Adult up to 200 participants/event
$125 first hour + $50 for each additional hour
See if you can earn your “I Held Rosie” sticker! Guests stop by to meet Rosie, a Chilean Rose-haired Tarantula and Butterfly Pavilion’s star ambassador animal! Hear fascinating facts about Rosie and Butterfly Pavilion’s efforts to spread invertebrate appreciation and habitat conservation. Must be at least 3 years old to hold Rosie. Must be held indoors.
Ages/Grades: Age 3- Adult
Fee: $125 first hour + $50 for each additional hour
Scholarships may be available to eligible schools/groups.
Group Size/Session: up to 200 participants/event
