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Sarah Frain feeds one of her “classmates,” a Galapagos Tortoise, at the Phoenix Zoo on her first day of a masters program she recently completed at Miami University in Ohio.
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ot many post-graduate students collect a master’s degree at a zoo, but that only seemed a natural venue for Centennial Middle School science teacher Sarah Frain. That’s because when Frain wasn’t taking online courses from Miami University in Ohio, her “classroom” was the Phoenix Zoo, where she studied animals as part of the Project Dragonfly Advanced Inquiry Program. Among other things, she studied biodiversity threats, conservation and evolution. As a middle-school student, Frain was a zoo teen volunteer, and over four years “I grew into my leadership abilities and loved using animals to help teach zoo guests,” she said. “It was my work as a zoo teen at the Phoenix Zoo that inspired me to become a teacher.” Her online classes allowed her to connect with other students around the world to exchange data on the differences that location and climate have on animals. “For another project, I had students examine the effect of crayfish on native species of aquatic life in Arizona,” she explained. “I loved every person in class at the Phoenix Zoo because we not only got to interact with different people and animals, but also outside presenters from various organizations.” Her goals in selecting the zoo as her classroom were twofold. “My hope is that by educating my students, using >> See
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