Bring your classroom students, daycare group, homeschoolers, or youth group campers and explore Butterfly Pavilion exhibits at your pace. Offered Monday-Friday year round, reservation required. Maximum varies with day's capacity.

Student scientists examine live animals and models to delve into intricate partnerships between invertebrates and plants. Students are guided to make inferences and deductions about the connections between plants, animals, and people!

Student scientists observe live animals, study models and specimens, and use a simple dichotomous key to identify common arthropod characteristics and practice creature classification.

Who needs a habitat? Bees, birds, bears, boys and girls, of course! Learners define the components of habitat- food, water, shelter, space- with a song/chant, and actively explore invertebrates and their homes.

Students explore invertebrate diversity by observing live animals, what these creatures eat and their myriad adaptations. guided by questions, students discover the incredible importance of invertebrates.

Outdoors along Big Dry Creek Nature Trail, student teams collect and compare transect data to reveal how biotic and abiotic parts of an ecosystem connect and how adaptations help living things survive in changing environments.

Student scientists use questions, live invertebrates, models and specimens to identify various adaptations. Students communicate how these physical and behavioral features help the animals survive and thrive in their habitats.

With dramatic play, inquiry and hands-on activities, young learners indulge their natural curiosity to discover how bugs live, grow, move, and more!

Student Scientists are challenged to use their senses to observe and interact with three live animals to solve the mystery of their connection - metamorphosis!

Survival is key for any animal. Your young scientists will investigate the relationships between predators and prey, and how invertebrates use camouflage and other techniques to survive. Join Butterfly Pavilion educators for a fun, interactive game all about the art of survival!

Habitat is home for invertebrates of all shapes and sizes! Your young scientists will discover what an animal needs to survive in its habitat through a fun interactive game and exploration of some of the habitats along Butterfly Pavilion’s nature trail!

What kind of bugs will we find in our own backyard? Your young scientists will investigate connections between bugs, plants, and their habitats during a guided bug hunt in Butterfly Pavilion’s garden and nature trails.

Bugs for dinner?! This program reveals how common bug-eating really is in our own lives and in other cultures around the world. Meet live animals, and - if you dare - even taste-test a bug! Bone(less) appetit!

Invertebrates live where they find habitat and they keep those environments healthy through habitat relationships. Using live animals, media, and critical thinking, students uncover predators, prey, decomposers, symbiosis and more.

Using science process skills, live animals, specimens and media, students investigate invertebrates and their incredible - and sometimes unbelievable - physical and behavioral adaptations.

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 also examine preserved butterflies at every stage of the life cycle.

In group activities, students work together to examine models and specimens and observe life animals to identify arthropod characteristics. Students sort critters into major groups: insects, spiders, and others.

Children and families will hear a classic spider story, visit with a spider puppet to learn about unique spider anatomy, and safely encounter live spiders, including Rosie* the tarantula. Rise beyond fears, separate fact from fiction, and find out how spiders help us!

*Must be at least 3 years old to hold Rosie!

By reading beloved stories and encountering live animals, children and families come to appreciate various invertebrates as they take on a whole new dimension as literary characters. Learners may take a closer look at live, safely enclosed spineless creatures and hold Rosie* the tarantula!

*Must be at least 3 years old to hold Rosie

In this show and tell presentation, guests meet invertebrates from diverse environments around the globe, hear about their characteristics, including where and how they live and learn why they are important in our world. Learners may take a closer look at live, safely enclosed spineless creatures and hold Rosie* the tarantula!

*Must be at least 3 years old to hold Rosie.

As a whole group, students reveal how butterflies and moths differ by dressing up a student or teacher and by studying preserved butterflies and moths. In an active metamorphosis game, students experience the amazing butterfly life cycle.

Student scientists explore adaptations and critical ecological relationships of key aquatic invertebrates. Students analyze real data to understand how environmental changes can impact these invertebrates and ecosystems.

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.

Butterfly Pavilion offers a series of engaging, play based programs infused with science content and fun that are designed for youth groups, camps, childcare programs and schools working with youth K-6 after school or during school breaks. Email education@butterflies.org for more information

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

Through an interactive video conference, participants 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, they'll find out how to get involved with monarch conservation and research activities. Perhaps you will be the scientists who demystify lingering questions!

In this empowering program, participants compare three types of bees, discover why bees are important, investigate their population decline, and generate ideas to help conserve and restore their numbers!

Take a virtual journey through one of the most fascinating biomes - the rainforest! Guests are put to the test to see if they can survive harsh extremes of the tropics. Program includes an opportunity to see live rainforest invertebrates and/or preserved specimens up close.