From azcentral.com:

In the students four-week study of animal adaptations, nothing was as memorable as the hour in which they saw live animals located 700 miles away – all from their Kyle, Texas, school. Via videoconferencing, Petersons students saw such zoo denizens as an owl, a snake and a bearded dragon lizard at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kan.

“It was something different to get the kids out of a textbook,” Peterson says. “It was like a big show-and-tell, and I think it was really effective.”

Ryan Schaffer, distance-learning coordinator at the Lee Richardson Zoo, says, “In this time and day when school districts are strapped for cash, this is certainly a nice resource for the teachers.” His program is one of the few available for free; others typically range from $50 to $200 for an hour session.

More than 15 of the 216 members of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums AZA have videoconferencing programs to reach schools that dont have the time or money for field trips. Together, they connected with more than 85,000 students last year.

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