You facilitate the program, and we add the excitement!
Call 316-266-8213 to reserve your box at least two weeks before you need it.
A through Z Boxes
$10 each + $15 refundable security deposit
Designed specifically for preschool and kindergarten-age children, we have a box for each letter of the alphabet. Boxes include:
- Background information
- Lesson plans for one letter of the alphabet with hands-on materials
- Handwriting pages in both D’Nealian and Zane Blaser styles
- Animal artifacts & information
- Books
- Optional craft ideas, songs, puzzles and games
All supplies will be disinfected before and after check out and can be disinfected by you between uses.
STEAM Kits
2 kits for $10 + $15 refundable security deposit
Each kit has enough supplies for two to four students to stay engaged at the same time. All supplies will be disinfected before and after check out and can be disinfected by you in between each use.
| Grades K-2 | Grades 3-5 |
| Science – Get in My BellyTechnology – Billy Goats Gruff
Engineering – Buzz about Bees Engineering – Build a Giraffe Art – Animal Pattern Blocks Art – Habitat Match Math – Chimpanzee Diets |
Science – Big Headed ScienceScience – Refraction
Technology – Find the Frog Technology – Gorilla Weights Engineering – Three Little Pigs Math – Fibonacci’s Spiral Math – Mystery at the Peculiar Zoo |
STEAM Boxes
$10 each + $15 refundable security deposit
Designed specifically for early childhood, STEAM Boxes help you connect with nature.
Each box includes background information, lesson plans with hands-on materials, animal artifacts & information about the artifacts, books, craft ideas, songs, puzzles and games.
Box topics: Animal Homes; Animal Movement; Animal Senses; or How Animals Eat
Investigation Stations
$10 each + $15 refundable security deposit
Pre-K through 5th grade students will interact, investigate and explore with our Investigation Stations. Each station includes background information for the educator and hands-on learning materials for the students. Only supplies that can be disinfected after each use will be included.
Topics include (programs can be adapted to younger or older grades):
| Grades Pre-K-2 | Grades 3-5 |
| Buzz about Bees
Pollinator Protectors Eggcitement* Wild Weather Three Little Pigs |
Climate Challenge*
Vet’s Eye View Great Plains Mall Nature’s Engineers Menu Mania |
*These Investigation Stations are unavailable for checkout in April and May 2022.
STEM Safari Boxes
$10 each + $15 refundable security deposit
For the STEM Safari program, we provide you the presentation and materials to facilitate the program yourself. Each kit includes a presentation, animal biofacts and hands-on learning activity. Only supplies that can be disinfected after each use will be included.
Programs are designed by grade, kindergarten through high school.
How to Check Out a Box
- All check out boxes and kits must be reserved at least two weeks in advance by calling 266-8213.
- Materials are checked out from and returned to the Cargill Learning Center at a specific time.
- Each box or kit may be checked out for one week.
- Failure to return materials on time will lead to an invoice for a $25 late fee, billed to you by the Zoo’s Finance Department.
- Damage to materials that is beyond normal wear on the items may lead to a replacement charge for broken items, billed to you by the Zoo’s Finance Department.