I got invited to speak by a friend to her first grade class about their unit on conservation and how scientists use facts/emotions to persuade an audience to protect animals. I will be speaking for an hour and plan to dedicate roughly 45 minutes to speaking and asking interactive questions and leaving the last 15 minutes for questions and a sort of show and tell with some cool objects (jaguar painting, cast of a paw print, whisker etc).
I already have a rough outline but I just wanted to reach out to see if anyone has fun ideas or inspo for anything fun I can include. I am a newby zookeeper, only 4 months into my first paid position, but I have about 3 years of experience between internships and volunteering at zoos/sanctuaries.
I have never given a formal keeper talk but I will often be doing an animal feeding or something or the sort and come up with a mini speech about our animal and answer any questions people have. I loooove the educational aspect of my job and always wanted to do a chat of some sort to a class or just the general public and now I have the opportunity and want to make it as informative and age-appropriate as possible! I am pretty nervous only bc idk how to fill 45 minutes of talking since I tend to talk fast so the more info the include the better!
TIA