Dear Chapter Leader:
Welcome to Audubon Adventures, Audubon's flagship environmental education classroom program that engages the next generation of Americans who will be the 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. Our 26th season begins in September.
In September, Audubon will release an all-new edition of Audubon Adventures entitled Action for Planet Earth. Action for Planet Earth is a standards-based classroom curriculum supplement that focuses on conservation action. Content will be rooted in the core elementary science, language arts, and social studies (civics) curricula. Action for Planet Earth will contain four study units:
- Action for Planet Earth: Water
- Action for Planet Earth: Energy
- Action for Planet Earth: Habitats
- Action for Planet Earth's Species - Pennies for the Planet!
Orders for this new edition are now being accepted.
Audubon Adventures Classrooms receive all of this:
- Audubon Adventures Classroom Resource Kit featuring student handouts, background information for teachers, and hands-on activities for inside and outside the classroom
- Pennies for the Planet featuring a large classroom poster, teacher's guide, and student handouts
- "Nature Journaling for Everyone." This guide provides helpful information, advice, and techniques for starting and keeping a Naturalist's Journal.
- A Classroom Resource Manual that helps an educator provide in depth instruction on the topics and includes action components to use inside and outside the classroom.
- Online student assessment questions and answers that evaluate students' language arts and science skills
- Detailed charts showing how content meets national and state standards for CA, DE, FL, IL, MO, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, TX, WY
- Using Audubon Adventures in After-school and Youth Club Settings
- Access to Audubon Adventures Webstore, stocked with amazing educational products
- Opportunity to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count in February 2010
- Gift of Audubon membership in the teacher's name
Getting Started Is Easy! Here's how:
- Let your board know about Audubon Adventures, and discuss with them ways to use Audubon Adventures to achieve your chapter's conservation education goals.
- 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.)
- Inform your contact list by phone, email and regular mail that kits are available from your chapter. Collect the "ship to" information for every teacher who wants to receive a classroom kit, and fill out the order forms.
- Choose the enrollment method that works best for you: telephone, mail, fax, or, place your entire order online from our web store.
- Get to know teachers. Help set up a feeder outside a classroom window, or provide 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 (30 students) is only $38.50 plus $7.15 for shipping and handling. For a single child or home schooler the cost is only $19 plus $6 shipping and handling. Payment by check or credit card is accepted. Payment plans are available. In addition, with your order for 25 or more classes, we will send you a free Audubon calendar.
Support Services:
Here are some of the support services we provide to Audubon Chapters:
- Promotional samples, flyers, etc.
- Record-retrieval—we can send you a list of the teachers who participated last year
- Ready-to-print newsletter ads
- Personal assistance placing a complicated order…
For personal 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_adventures@audubon.org.
Congratulations to the Top Audubon Adventures Sponsors for 2009!
Couer d'Alene Audubon Society in Idaho, is once again at the top of the list with 140 classrooms, with Jackson Audubon of MI close behind with 138 classrooms! Congratulations to all. Thanks to all who have worked so hard this year. See the complete list.
