San Diego Zoo Academy offers eight weeks of free classes

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - For the next eight weeks, middle and high school teachers and students can gain access to 22 free, self-paced online courses through the San Diego Zoo covering a variety of taxonomic groups and individual animal species.

Offered by the San Diego Zoo Global Academy, the interactive courses are designed to be completed by students in as little as one to two hours. They include video, images and quizzes to teach students about mammals, birds, reptiles, monotremes and more.

"The urgent nature of San Diego Zoo Global's work to save species is unchanged, even in the face of this pa...