Educational Opportunities | Cleveland Metroparks

Zoo Summer Day Camp at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo creates compelling experiences that connect campers with wildlife and inspire personal responsibility for conserving the natural world.

Spring Break Camp

Zoo Spring Break Camp at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo creates compelling experiences that connect campers with wildlife and inspire personal responsibility for conserving the natural world.

Winter Break Camp

Zoo Winter Break Camp at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo creates compelling experiences that connect campers with wildlife, and inspire personal responsibility for conserving the natural world.

Collaborative Inquiry Project

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Collaborative Inquiry Project allows students to explore various areas of the Zoo — focusing on observation and genetics in a Zoo environment.

Connections to Africa: 1st to 3rd Grade

This inquiry-driven, self-guided program will help your students build a connection to African animals by asking questions about how they live and survive.

Connections to Africa: 4th to 6th Grade

This inquiry-driven, self-guided program will help your students build a connection to African animals by asking questions about how they live and survive.

Connections to Africa: Teacher Kits

Reserve a Teacher Kit containing lesson plans and hands-on materials to help prepare for your next Zoo visit.

Inside Tracks Tour Program

Get in the Inside Track with a behind the scenes experience at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Join zoo staff for a unique 90-minute program that includes fun-filled facts about zoo history, animal care, behavior, and conservation. This is a fun and educational experience you don’t want to miss.

Keeper for a Day

Spend the day with animal professionals in the Zoo's Conservation Education Division to learn more about what it is like to be a zookeeper.

Golf Cart Cruise

Golf Cart Cruise offers the opportunity to ride on a golf cart to areas around the Zoo with a staff-led, narrated tour.

Professor Wylde's Traveling Show

Meet ambassador animals up close with this zoo to you style outreach program.

Veterinarian Bag Exploration

This self-guided activity promotes student observation in an effort to solve a scientific problem – a grizzly bear with a medical problem.

Zoo Crew

The application period for the 2022 Zoo Crew season is closed. Thank you for interest.

Zoo Library

Access animal resources, Zoo history and our Online Resource Library to help with your next school project, research or at-home learning.

Zoo Science and Management Course

AIP Master's Advanced Inquiry Program

Master's degree seeking and non-degree seeking program with web-based graduate courses from Miami University and face-to-face experiential study at the Zoo.

Gorillas on the Line

Sign your team up for this exciting competition!

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Veterinary Technician Externship

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Veterinary Technician Externship provides a post-graduate, continuing education opportunity for veterinary technicians pursuing a career in zoo and wildlife medicine.

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Veterinary Externship

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Veterinary Externship provides third and fourth year veterinary students a continuing education opportunity for individuals pursuing a career in zoo and wildlife medicine.