Over the long term, we plan to integrate materials from the Bronx Zoo’s HELP curriculum into the grade 6 science program. Based on responses from teachers attending T.R.I.P.S. workshops at the zoo, we have focused the attention on animals for grade 6 science (4th quarter). We have adopted new textbooks for 2003-04 and sequenced the topic areas into specific quarters of grades 6, 7 and 8. This program will be in place for the next 7 years! (It's also an area assessed as a state science standard.) Trade books have been purchased by the language arts department through the Knight Foundation to support "science recreation read." The foundation for this program was built during T.R.I.P.S.. Now we are continuing with T.R.I.P.S. workshops at the zoo to enhance teachers’ content knowledge as well as provide opportunities for hands-on, minds-on activities for students. What is the number one field trip chosen by teachers in the Wichita Public Schools? The Sedgwick County Zoo!"

The Detroit Zoo and one of their T.R.I.P.S. partners, Hillside Middle School (Northville, MI), have created a program through which middle-school students studying the HELP curriculum are mentoring groups of younger children and helping them to create simulated rainforests in kindergarten classrooms. The mentors and those children mentored have also visited the zoo together. In addition, one teacher has gotten Voyage from the Sun (a curriculum she received at the T.R.I.P.S. Leadership Training Institute) written into the middle school curriculum. She reports the following: "I'm in the process of teaching Voyage from the Sun right now! This is the first year that the three science teachers in my building and the three across town are using it. This is my second year teaching it. We love it!”