Below you can find a selection of our environmental education lessons. If you do not find what you are looking for please do not hesitate to contact us as we can tailor make a programme for you and your schools needs.

Please be advised on the schedule below so that you avoid disappointments.

Time Table

9:00     10:00      11:00      12:00      13:00

Munda Wanga has a lot of schools visiting, we therefore kindly ask you to take the following points into account:
·      All programs are one and a half hours long unless otherwise arranged.
·      Please arrive 30 minutes before your scheduled time, as arriving late may compromise your educational lesson.
·      Priorities always go toward schools arriving on time.
·      All educational programs include a tour of the Wildlife Park and botanic gardens.
·      Upper basic and secondary students need to bring a pen and writing notebooks.

Educational Programmes

• Environmental Education Lessons for:
  - Grade 5 and below
  - Grade 3 -   5
  - Grade 4 -   6
  - Grade 6 -   7
  - Grade 8 -   9
  - Grade 8 - 12
  - Grade 9 - 12

Grade 5 & below

The Care for Me Zone
Your students sit down with our educators and interact with several of the animals that call the Care for Me Centre at the Discovery Zone home.  Your children will really enjoy this experience!

Animal Colours
Students play a fun animal colour game in this activity. It tests their knowledge on colours as well as getting to see animals up close.

What animal is this?
Your little ones use deduction and visual association to improve their memory and begin their education of Zambia’s animals.

Nature Walk
Students conduct their scientific experiments whilst developing their observation skills in the botanical gardens. Finding leaves and little bugs, they enhance their colours and shape associations, and are introduced to a new wild world of fun.

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 Grade 3 - 5

Tortoise
The fulu beat the kalulu, but it is endangered of losing the race for survival in Zambia.  With pressures of the pet trade, bush meat demand and late burning, Zambia’s tortoise population is decreasing.  Students also touch and see how hard a tortoise’s shell really is!

Story telling
As your class walks along the Wildlife Park and Botanical Gardens, they will be introduced to animal behaviour through a series of stories and poems.

Wildlife Drama
Your students use their imagination as they are given animals, scenes and environments to act out. The animal maker leads your children on an enjoyable adventure to use their creative side.

Animal Creations
Pupils come up with their own animal creations with various natural materials and recycled items. This arts and crafts session is sure to please any parent.

Grade 4-6

Owl
Learn about the silent ways of the owl, its folklore, and how these birds help people.  Find out interesting ways this predator gets its prey and learn about its nocturnal nature.

Nature Walk
Explore the gardens and be amazed at the diversity that lies in the plant kingdom.  This exploratory walk crosses the many textures, sounds, shapes, colours and smells that nature offers all those who take this journey.

Wildlife shopping
Let your students create their own wildlife park.  They receive a budget and buy whatever they wish to make their wildlife sanctuary a success.  They develop maths skills, have fun and find out what it takes to manage animals.

Grade 6-7

Animal Enrichment
(This is a 2 hour session)
Learn the basics of animal management.  Then formulate your findings to design one of our animal exhibits in order to enrich the lives of our animal friends.  Dive into arts and crafts, and use recycling to create a new enclosure design or food arrangement for our education animals.

Elephant
(This is a 1 hour session)
Is an elephant destructive, or, is it an interior designer?  Find out as your students act in a mini drama and witness the cycle of life in the bush.

Wild dog
Students find out how special Zambia is in this lesson.  Find out why wild dogs are endangered by conducting your own research on these rare carnivores that call Zambia home.

Grade 8-9

Soil Experiments
Here students get their hands dirty as they conduct their own scientific soil experiments.  Understand the importance of determining soil quality and how to maintain its integrity through the growing seasons.

Tree and Bamboo Basics
Help reduce the pressures of deforestation in Zambia through conservation. We all use trees to survive, but if we loose all of our trees we will perish. Learn about native trees of Zambia and how to plant them. Also, find out how one special grass species is a fantastic way to preserve our precious tree resources. Take a bamboo segment to plant in your local community, school or home. Do your part in saving the earth in this fun lesson.

Grade 8-12

 Communications by display
Why is a flycatcher’s tail so long?  Why is the nose very important to a leopard?  Find out how animals communicate without using words.  This is a fun lesson that will leave you amazed with the animal kingdom.

Medicinal Plants
Come and enter Munda Wanga’s natural pharmacy.  Explore the medicinal world of plants and how they aid in human’s well being.  With this enlightening tour, you will be compelled to conserve plants’ well being for your survival.

Habitats and Ecology
(These are 2-hour sessions)
Wetlands
Zambian Wetlands are abundant with wildlife.  Learn about the complexities of a wetland and Zambia’s very own unique animals that live there.  Then tour our wetland area and observe weaver birds at work and by conducting a pond study, find out what smaller things live in the water. It is a full experience of lecture and practical.

Grasslands
What lies hidden in all of that grass, and what animals depend on grasslands for their survival?  Discover by solving the complex web of life (food chain) puzzle. Watch grazers and browsers at work in our grassland area, always keeping an eye out for something lurking in the grass.

Woodland
Mopani woodlands are very special to Zambia.  Find out why this habitat is so important and why Zambia is losing these woodlands at an alarming rate.  Look at many beautiful birds that find refuge in woodland areas. But watch out! Danger lurks from above.

Grade 9 to 12

Guided Tours
(Two hour sessions)
Territoriality
Why do baboons bark?  Why do lions roar?  Find out as you explore the park and observe the animals.  Students are given a riddle at the beginning of the program and answer it by the time they watch the lions eating.

Owls
Walk along with one of our guides as they take you on an eventful journey about the secret world of owls.  Play a game to see how nocturnal animals hunt and find out why owls are special predators.  Dissect owl pellets and find out what is inside.
 

Wild dog
This tour takes you into the world of the wild dog.  Listen to Zambian folklore about wild dogs, find out why these interesting hunters are endangered and make behavioural observations as you watch them feed.