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Curriculum-aligned animal resources for your teaching.

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Ask a Zoo Expert - VCE Biology

Go behind-the-scenes to meet the people working in wildlife conservation. This series, especially for VCE Biology, includes video interviews, classroom activities and more.

Grassland Earless Dragon side view, looking over the right shoulder to the camera.

VCE Biology Key Science Skills

Units 1-4

Show your students how Key Science Skills relate to real conservation science projects with Ask a Zoo Expert - Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon.

Teaching guide

Three Mountain Pygmy-Possum pups, huddled in a row.

VCE Biology Unit 1

Area of Study 2, Outcome 2: Functioning systems

Teach about components, functions and interactions of functioning body systems with Ask a Zoo Expert - Mountain Pygmy-possum.

Teaching guide

Yumi the Platypus swimming to the left of frame, seen underwater in their enclosure: brown with a paddle-shaped tail like a beaver; a sleek, furry body like an otter; and a flat bill and webbed feet like a duck.

VCE Biology Unit 1

Area of Study 2, Outcome 2: Functioning systems

Teach about the stimulus-response mechanisms that are used to maintain homeostasis with Ask a Zoo Expert - Platypus.

Teaching guide

Black and yellow stripped Southern Corroboree Frog.

VCE Biology Unit 2

Area of Study 2, Outcome 2: Adaptations and diversity

Teach about structural, physiological and behavioural adaptations with Ask a Zoo Expert - Southern Corroboree Frog.

Teaching guide

VCE Biology Unit 2

Area of Study 2, Outcome 2: Adaptations and diversity

Teach about ecosystems and the interdependencies between species with Ask a Zoo Expert - Tasmanian Devil.

Teaching guide

Science Research

Get access to the latest science and research publications.

Golden-Rayed Blue Butterfly perched on a brown blade of grass.

Animal Toolkits

Each Toolkit includes the latest science and has been curated in consultation with Threatened Species experts.

Animal Toolkits

Release of eigtheen Helmeted Honeyeaters at Yellingbo Conservation Reserve: Two are perched on a thin branch, with the bird on the left sitting up slightly higher with beak open, both facing each other.

Latest research

Zoos Victoria and its partners publish a range of scientific research papers each year. We keep an updated list on our website.

Research and publications

Ask a Zoo Expert - VCE VM

Go behind-the-scenes to meet the people working in wildlife conservation. This series, especially for VCE VM, includes video interviews, classroom activities and more.

A smiling Vet, dressed in khaki, sits in front of a microscope with a clipboard and pen in her hand.

VCE VM

Workplace Skills

Teach what it takes to work at a zoo.

Veterinary nurse video

VCE VM teaching guides

A school student stands smiling behind her craft Schools showcase, featuring "nurdles."

Student Projects

We are here to support your students with their animal project ideas. Explore examples from other schools and templates that you can use right away.

Build a Project

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