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 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!
Use code NAAEE2026 to get 25% off before Oct 31!
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."
Have your little ones ever seen a bird eating? How and what did it eat? In the #GrowingUpWILD activity "Owl Pellets," children dissect an owl pellet and learn what owls eat. Your students will enjoy making owl collages, owl puppets, singing songs like the "Owl Song," and more!
Want your students to learn more about conservation? In the #FlyingWILD activity "Teaming Up for Birds," your students will research wild bird conservation organizations and create a plan to form one of their own!
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Oct is #WorldAnimalMonth, & our guides are full of activities to help students appreciate the importance of animals! Try #ProjectWILD's "Oh Deer!," "Eco-Enrichers," & "Turkey Tallies" activities; or, check out #AquaticWILD's "Are You Me?" & "Water Canaries" activities.
For teachers with younger children, our #GrowingUpWILD guide has activities like "First Impressions," "What's Wild?," "Spider Web Wonders" and "Ants on Parade" that are perfect for little ones to develop their understanding of animals.
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