Tours and activities for schools and nurseries
Treat your school or day-care group to a very special outing at Aquarium Berlin. As an extracurricular learning centre, the Aquarium offers a range of tours and projects adapted to every age group. Based on the Berlin curriculum, the tours and projects cleverly combine extraordinary animal experiences with natural science teaching.
- Aquarium expedition (perfect for school hiking days)
- Who lives underwater?
- Duration
75-90 min.
- Language
German or English; other languages can sometimes be arranged upon request
- Price
€40 (plus admission)
Regular school admission prices apply. You can find a price overview here. Please remember to bring along a properly filled out and stamped form for school visitors.
- Booking
To enable us to prepare properly for your visit, we will need the following information:
- School name, type of school
- Year, class size, special information about the class, preferred topic
- Is the trip part of a school hiking day or a supplement to classroom teaching?
and
- Contact person with his/her telephone number and/or email address
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
- Are you interested in booking?
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
- School material for download
- Up-to-date animal info!
You can sign up to our school newsletter free of charge here.
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What animals do you know? How can we classify them?
Appropriate tours:
- Comparing insects and arachnids
- Life cycles of fish and amphibians
- Aquarium expedition (perfect for school hiking days)
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Habitats and their inhabitants – how they interact
Appropriate tours:
- Adapting to life underwater
- Duration
75-90 min.
- Language
German or English; other languages can sometimes be arranged upon request
- Price
€40 (plus admission)
Regular school admission prices apply. You can find a price overview here. Please remember to bring along a properly filled out and stamped form for school visitors.
- Booking
To enable us to prepare properly for your visit, we will need the following information:
- School name, type of school
- Year, class size, special information about the class, preferred topic
- Is the trip part of a school hiking day or a supplement to classroom teaching?
and
- Contact person with his/her telephone number and/or email address
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
- Are you interested in booking?
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
- School material for download
- Up-to-date animal info!
You can sign up to our school newsletter free of charge here.
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What animals do you know? How can we classify them?
Appropriate tours:
- Fish, reptiles, amphibians – an overview (with a period of independent study)
- Comparing insects and arachnids
- Learning stations in the Aquarium (with extended independent study period)
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Habitats and their inhabitants – how they interact
Appropriate tours:
- Adapting to life underwater
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Species conservation
Appropriate tours:
- Threatened Aquarium inhabitants – the last of their kind
- Duration
75-90 min.
- Language
German or English; other languages can sometimes be arranged upon request
- Price
€40 (plus admission)
Regular school admission prices apply. You can find a price overview here. Please remember to bring along a properly filled out and stamped form for school visitors.
- Booking
To enable us to prepare properly for your visit, we will need the following information:
- School name, type of school
- Year, class size, special information about the class, preferred topic
- Is the trip part of a school hiking day or a supplement to classroom teaching?
and
- Contact person with his/her telephone number and/or email address
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
- Are you interested in booking?
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
- School material for download
- Up-to-date animal info!
You can sign up to our school newsletter free of charge here.
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What animals do you know? How can we classify them?
Appropriate tours:
- Fish, reptiles, amphibians – an overview (with a period of independent study)
- The world of invertebrates
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Habitats and their inhabitants – how they interact
Appropriate tours:
- Adapting to life underwater
- The reef ecosystem and human influence
-
Species conservation
Appropriate tours:
- Threatened Aquarium inhabitants – the last of their kind
- Duration
75-90 min.
- Language
German or English; other languages can sometimes be arranged upon request
- Price
€40 (plus admission)
Regular school admission prices apply. You can find a price overview here. Please remember to bring along a properly filled out and stamped form for school visitors.
- Booking
To enable us to prepare properly for your visit, we will need the following information:
- School name, type of school
- Year, class size, special information about the class, preferred topic
- Is the trip part of a school hiking day or a supplement to classroom teaching?
and
- Contact person with his/her telephone number and/or email address
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
- Are you interested in booking?
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
- School material for download
- Up-to-date animal info!
You can sign up to our school newsletter free of charge here.
-
Habitats and their inhabitants – how they interact
Appropriate tours:
- The reef ecosystem and human influence
- Venomous animals – poison as camouflage, a warning and a weapon
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Evolution
Appropriate tours:
- From water to land
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Species conservation
Appropriate tours:
- Humans & the ocean – anthropogenic influence
- Duration
75-90 min.
- Language
German or English; other languages can sometimes be arranged upon request
- Price
€40 (plus admission)
Regular school admission prices apply. You can find a price overview here. Please remember to bring along a properly filled out and stamped form for school visitors.
- Booking
To enable us to prepare properly for your visit, we will need the following information:
- School name, type of school
- Year, class size, special information about the class, preferred topic
- Is the trip part of a school hiking day or a supplement to classroom teaching?
and
- Contact person with his/her telephone number and/or email address
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
- Are you interested in booking?
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
- School material for download
- Up-to-date animal info!
You can sign up to our school newsletter free of charge here.
-
Evolution
Appropriate tours:
- From water to land
- Bionics – how humans learn from nature
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Habitats and their inhabitants – how they interact
Appropriate tours:
- Venomous – poison as camouflage, a warning and a weapon
-
Species conservation
Appropriate tours:
- Humans & the ocean – anthropogenic influence
- Duration
75-90 min.
- Language
German or English; other languages can sometimes be arranged upon request
- Price
€40 (plus admission)
Regular school admission prices apply. You can find a price overview here. Please remember to bring along a properly filled out and stamped form for school visitors.
- Booking
To enable us to prepare properly for your visit, we will need the following information:
- School name, type of school
- Year, class size, special information about the class, preferred topic
- Is the trip part of a school hiking day or a supplement to classroom teaching?
and
- Contact person with his/her telephone number and/or email address
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
- Are you interested in booking?
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
- School material for download
- Up-to-date animal info!
You can sign up to our school newsletter free of charge here.
- No. of participants
min. 5, max. 35
- Duration
approx. 60 min.
- Price
Free of charge. If you would like to stay in the Aquarium afterwards, you can purchase a day ticket at the end of the workshop.
- Booking
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
- Registration
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
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Tour of discovery through the Aquarium
From the jellyfish to the giant snake! On this tour, the group explores the Aquarium’s three floors and learns all about individual species and their unique features in a fun way.
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Underwater expedition
Take a deep breath! This tour is all about exploring the colourful underwater world. I wonder who we will meet down there?
- Duration
approx. 75 min.
- Language
German or English; other languages can sometimes be arranged upon request
- Price
€45
Plus the regular day-care centre admission price. You can find a price overview here. Please remember to bring along a properly filled out and stamped form for day-care centre visitors.
- Booking
To ensure you can reserve your preferred date and time, please send a booking request at least 14 days in advance.
Please note: Currently, a maximum of 12 people (children and accompanying adults) may participate in our tours. - Are you interested in booking?
Contact us at zooschule@zoo-berlin.de.
Years 1 & 2
Below you will find the range of tours for grades 1-2 per topic area of the framework curriculum.
What animals do you know? How can we classify them?
Appropriate tours:
You can download more information about tours for Years 1 & 2 here:PDF DOWNLOAD
All at a glance!
Years 3 & 4
Below you will find the range of tours for grades 3-4 per topic area of the framework curriculum.
You can download more information about tours for Years 3 & 4 here: PDF DOWNLOAD
All at a glance!
Years 5 & 6
Below you will find the range of tours for grades 5-6 per topic area of the framework curriculum.
You can download more information about tours for Years 5 & 6 here:PDF DOWNLOAD
All at a glance!
Years 7 & 8
Below you will find the range of tours for grades 7-8 per topic area of the framework curriculum.
You can download more information about tours for Years 7 & 8 here:PDF DOWNLOAD
All at a glance!
Years 9 & 10
Below you will find the range of tours for grades 9-10 per topic area of the framework curriculum.
You can download more information about tours for Years 9 & 10 here:PDF DOWNLOAD
All at a glance!
Years 11, 12 & 13
Below you will find the range of tours for grades 11-13 per topic area of the framework curriculum.
You can download more information about tours for Years 11, 12 & 13 here:PDF DOWNLOAD
All at a glance!
Teacher training
Find out what Zoo and Aquarium Berlin have to offer as extracurricular learning centres. Our cost-free teacher training workshops tell you more about the concepts behind the individual tours and projects and how they link in with the curriculum. You will also gain fascinating insight into the wide range of animals on view here and discover how each tour offers a very special learning experience.
All at a glance!
Nurseries
Our specially developed tours for very young children give day-care groups a unique experience of Aquarium Berlin. Under the care of an experienced guide, the children interact with the animal kingdom in a fun and playful way.
