Project WILD, a program of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, is a wildlife-focused conservation education program for preK-12 educators.
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Educator trainings are available in-person throughout the year in the US and Canada. Please contact your local Project WILD Coordinator for times and locations. Visit projectwild.org, and click on the "Get Training" button for more information.
What animals do your little ones think of as spooky? Try the #GrowingUpWILD activity "First Impressions" to have them share how they think and feel about animals - even scary ones! Don't forget to include singing the "Scary Animals" song!
How do available freshwater resources amount to just a few drops in a bucket? In #AquaticWILD's "How Wet Is Our Planet?," students calculate water vols using percentages. A fun math lesson that teaches concepts like the water cycle & freshwater, saltwater, & groundwater.
In #GrowingUpWILD's "Show Me the Energy" kids discover that all animals, including people, depend on plants as a food source. Get your kids outside as Food Chain Detectives in the 'Take Me Outside' section, sing songs like "Snack, Snack, It's a Fact!," & more!
Give your community an attitude check with #ProjectWILD's "Wildlife & the Environment: Community Survey" activity. Students design a survey to assess local views about an issue, analyze survey results, and describe possible outcomes due to differing views in their community.
What are your plans for #BatWeek? Try #ProjectWILD's "Bat Blitz" activity to have your kids pretend to be bats! They'll enjoy this interactive lesson that strengthens math skills as well.
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Want to learn abt ticks & disease? In #ProjectWILD's "WILD & Healthy Outside: A Tick Trek Adventure," a 3hr self-paced course, learn abt vector-borne diseases, a tick life cycle, & how to implement the new Project WILD activity “Tick Trek Adventure.” sciencefriday.com/segments/t…
For more information and the registration link to Conservation Learning Campus, please visit projectwild.org and click on "Online PD Courses for Educators."
Looking for a way to get your students up and moving before winter dormancy sets in? Register for WILD About Bears and learn more about the bears of North America and the challenges they face gathering resources they need to survive.
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Learn how to facilitate the simulation in the #ProjectWILD activity "Limiting Factors: How Many Bears?" & much more!
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Go to projectwild.org, click on 'Online PD Courses for Educators' to get the details & register today!
Happy #NationalReptileAwarenessDay! Bring attention to our cold-blooded friends with the activity "Keeping Cool" found in your #ProjectWILD guide.
Challenge students to identify birds in the #FlyingWILD activity "The Birding Beat." Students can learn to use bird identification characteristics like silhouette, plumage, and habitat along with a field guide.
How will you imagine and express your life as an "animal" through poetry? In #ProjectWILD's "Animal Poetry" activity, students imagine being animals and write poems to recognize and experience the inspirational value of wildlife.
Look at those feet! Birds have a wide variety of feet. Get your students learning about adaptations like these with the #FlyingWILD activity "Adaptation Artistry." facebook.com/100063881107971…
Be careful stomping in that puddle; it's a habitat! The #AquaticWILD field investigation activity "Puddle Wonders" is a great way for students to discover one of the benefits of rain by exploring the puddles that it makes.
How do wild seeds get to so many places? In the #GrowingUpWILD activity "Seed Need," children explore seeds as food for people and animals and learn how animals spread seeds.
Check out our #FlyingWILD guide! Targeted for the 5-8th grade audience, Flying WILD: Birds Across the Curriculum offers practical hands-on classroom and outdoor field investigation experiences connecting real-world experiences in bird biology, conservation, & natural history.
Visit fishwildlife.org/projectwild… to find the online course information
Follow wild turkeys through historical periods of vast abundance, decline and domestication, and restoration and management in the activity "Let's Talk Turkey" found in the #ProjectWILD guide.
October is #BatAppreciationMonth, and #ProjectWILD is here to celebrate and educate about these amazing flying mammals!
Check out the "WILD About Bats" online course at fishwildlife.org/projectwild…
What forms of ancient life populated this region? Are these same life forms here? How has the waterway changed? Questions like these will be answered by your students in the #AquaticWILD activity "Watered-Down History."
