The Invertebrates Workshop

To get the most out of The Invertebrates Workshop at the Zoo, we suggest studying the following aspects at school before the visit: 

To understand the students’ interests and increase motivation about the animals:

• Collect questions that the students ask about invertebrates to work with later. Collect news articles about damages caused by the African lobster and other invertebrates.
  
• Bring in videos, CDs or other materials on electronic supports about these issues.
• Start a collection of invertebrates in the classroom, to which all students can bring in animals and classify them, starting with the phyla that are most studied at the Zoo: arthropods, molluscs and echinoderms. 

To observe animals:

• Take an outing to the beach, the countryside or forest to discover the great diversity of invertebrates that you can find.
  
• Look at home and on the schoolyard for invertebrates that students can later classify with the help of a book, and those that have the most interesting traits. 
• Build an ant house with a glass viewing panel.

As specific objectives:

• Understand the large proportion of animals that are invertebrates compared to vertebrates.
• Introduce the classification of living beings.
• Study the most important characteristics of the different phyla.