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Welcome to Audubon Adventures, Audubon's flagship environmental education classroom program helping to educate the future stewards of America's natural treasures - our streams and wetlands, forests and prairies, rivers and oceans.
Audubon Adventures helps 3rd through 5th graders form positive attitudes about nature. Audubon Adventures covers topics and themes that are important to Audubon's mission in a way that supports teachers and can help your chapter to gain visibility and new members.
The 27th season of Audubon Adventures begins in September. Whether you are just hearing about Audubon Adventures for the first time, or whether you have been active in the program for many years, we warmly invite you to participate by providing the Audubon Adventures education program to grades 3 – 5 classrooms in your community.

The title of our 2010-11 kit is Wildlife on the Move, a four-part exploration of migrating animals. Wildlife on the Move will include 4 editions:

  1. Amazing journeys and life cycles of migrating birds of the Americas;
  2. Monarch butterfly and dragonfly migration
  3. Whales and sea turtles and their migratory seasons;
  4. Action for Planet Earth focusing on ways that young people can make valuable contributions to conservation in their community.

BONUS: Wildlife on the Move will contain four study units PLUS Pennies for the Planet. In addition to four Audubon Adventures issues in every Classroom Kit, everyone will receive Pennies for the Planet, an educational fundraising project from TogetherGreen that focuses on protecting habitats for migrating animals.

Audubon Adventures Classrooms receive all of this:

  • Audubon Adventures’ Wildlife on the Move Classroom Resource Kit, featuring four sets of student newsmagazines and a 48-page teacher’s manual with background information and hands-on activities for inside and outside the classroom.
  • Backyard Birds of Eastern and Western North America
  • Audubon Guide to a Healthy Schoolyard
  • Pennies for the Planet featuring a large classroom poster, teacher's guide, and student handouts
  • Nature Journaling for Everyone. This guide for adults working with groups of kids provides helpful information, advice, and techniques, to help kids create personal nature journals.
  • Student assessment questions and answers that evaluate students' language arts and science skills
  • Detailed charts showing how using Audubon Adventures materials meets national and state learning standards
  • Access to Audubon Adventures Handbook for After-school and other informal group settings.
  • Access to Audubon Adventures’ online store, stocked with amazing educational products
  • Invitation to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count in February 2011
  • Gift of Audubon membership in the teacher's name

Getting Started Is Easy! Orders for the Fall 2010 Season are now being accepted. Here's how:

  1. Let your board know about Audubon Adventures, and discuss with them ways to use Audubon Adventures to achieve your chapter's conservation education goals.
  2. Download and duplicate the “What Teachers Need To Know” overview sheet to share with interested parties. This sheet will give teachers the answers to many of their questions about the program.
  3. Determine which schools to target, and develop your contact list (classroom teachers in grades 3, 4, and 5, as well as the principal and the science or reading specialists in the building can be your main contacts.)
  4. Inform your contact list by phone, email and regular mail that kits are available from your chapter. Collect the "ship to" information for each and every teacher who wants to receive a classroom kit, and fill out the required order forms, even if they are from the same school. To ensure accuracy, please be sure to fill out the 2010-2011 Chapter and Teacher Order Form. Forms can be filled out by hand or online and submitted electronically.
  5. Choose the enrollment method that works best for you: online, mail, telephone, or fax.
  6. Get to know teachers. Chapter volunteers who enjoy children love working with Audubon Adventure classrooms. Offer to help set up a feeder outside a classroom window, or provide their classes with a visitor from your chapter to help children construct their own feeders from recycled materials. Furnish a list of species native to your area that might stop by to feed.

 

Cost:

The cost for an entire class (32 students) is only $38.50. For a single child or home schooler the cost is only $19. Shipping and handling is additional. Payment by check or credit card is accepted, and payment plans are available. In addition, with your paid order for 25 or more classes, we will send you a free Audubon mug.


Support Services:

For friendly and prompt assistance, please contact Bonnie Godfrey, at our help desk at the Sharon Audubon Center in Sharon, Conn., 800-813-5037, or by e-mail Audubon Education.

Here are some of the support services provided to Audubon Chapters by our department:

  • Promotional samples, flyers, etc.
  • Record-retrieval – we can send you a list of your teachers from last year
  • Ready-to-print newsletter ads
  • Personal assistance placing a complicated order . . .

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