Topics addressed

• Ecology
• Evolution
• Biomes
• Geography

Description of Field Trip

Registration: Reservations are required for school groups and admission is provided on a first-come, first-served basis. The zoo allows only a limited number of student group admissions each day. Discounted admission rates for school groups are only available for the traditional school year (September through June). Schools must be registered with the California Department of Education to receive the discounted admission rates and the trip must be conducted during the regular academic day.

The reservation coordinator can be reached from 8:30am to 4:00pm, Monday through Friday, at (323) 644-4211.

Registration form for field trip. Tram tickets, sack lunches and goody bags are available at an additional cost.

Group Admission Fees (with reservation):

Standards

High School Biology

Ecology
6.g. Students know how to distinguish between the accommodation of an individual organism to its environment and the gradual adaptation of a lineage of organisms through genetic change.

Evolution
8.a. Students know how natural selection determines the differential survival of groups of organisms
8.b. Students know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major changes in the environment.