Education

Excite Young Minds with Audubon Adventures

Connect Children to Nature in Our Northern Arizona Communities

This National Audubon Society interdisciplinary environmental education program develops an awareness, understanding and appreciation of birds, other wildlife species, and their habitat requirements.  Targeted for students in grades 3-6, over eighty Northern Arizona classrooms, agencies and home school families subscribed last year.

 Our local Audubon chapter, Northern Arizona Audubon Society, provides subscriptions free of charge to classrooms, agencies and home school families.  We hope to reach more children and help them develop a sense of stewardship for the natural world.

Cost: $35 for classroom subscription for 32 students plus $5.95 shipping and handling

          $19 for individual subscription for 1 student plus $4.95 shipping and handling

For more information contact Joan Hamilton or see http://www.audubon.org/educate/aa/

Newspaper Topics for the 2000-2001 School Year  

• The Living Ocean
• Nature’s Banquet (plants, fruits, and seeds)
• From Dying to Thriving
• Endangered Species
• Owl Prowl

  This year’s kit will contain:

  • Dolphin Adventures video
  • A new standards alignment list that identifies the national language arts and science standards that can be met as students work with Audubon Adventures. 
    

Sponsor a Northern Arizona Classroom!

NAAS is asking members, friends, parents or grandparents to open a child’s mind to the wonders of nature by sponsoring a $35 classroom subscription to Audubon Adventures Program or $19 for an individual subscription for one student or home school families.

For further information, contact Joan Hamilton (520-282-3207) or send a check payable to:

NAAS c/o  Joan Hamilton, 340 Ridge Road, Sedona, AZ 86336

Kids Online

    Watchlist 4 Kids is a new interactive website for teachers, parents, and students presented by Audubon Adventures. The Watchlist was compiled by Partners in Flight, a coalition of scientist and concerned citizens. It identifies bird populations facing threats such as habitat loss. By taking action now, we can prevent at-risk birds from becoming threatened or endangered.

   Take a look at the website and find out how to make your backyard or school yards bird-friendly; get together with other birders; and help scientists do bird research. It is a great website for classroom or family fun and learning -  www.audubon.org/bird/watch/kids

Backyard Birding Project FeederWatch

Adults, teachers, and students can help scientist study North American feeder birds by participating in one of the FeederWatch projects developed by Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Participants learn about birds and science, and contribute data to an ongoing research project. Classroom FeederWatch includes a curriculum designed for elementary and middle school students.

Contact:  FeederWatch, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 1-800-843-BIRD (2473)

Check this website for this and other projects of interest to birders: http://birdsource.cornell.edu/

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