Dear Chapters:
Audubon Adventures is a nationally-acclaimed classroom project that helps young people 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 24th season of Audubon Adventures' begins in September. We sure hope your chapter will participate by providing Audubon Adventures to schools in your community.
The title of our newest kit is "Back from the Brink - Success Stories from the Endangered Species Act." Students will learn about the successful recovery of the bald eagle, American alligator, grizzly bear, and grey whale and other species that have been brought back from the brink by the ESA. Each issue contains fun activities, high interest content, and hopeful messages. We are introducing new features like "Good News for Planet Earth," and "Heroes of the Planet," which profiles people who are working to protect wild creatures and places.
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 (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. Payment plans are available. In addition, with your order for 25 or more classes, we will send you a free Audubon mug, cap, or T-shirt.
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.
Here are some of the support services available
- 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.
Audubon Adventures' classrooms are eligible to 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
- Gift of Audubon membership for all teachers
- Student assessment tools (question and answer keys that evaluate students’ language arts and science skills )
- Using Audubon Adventures in After-school and Youth Club Settings
- Detailed charts showing how content meets national and state standards*
- Access to Audubon Adventures Webstore, stocked with amazing educational products
- Opportunity to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count (February 2007)
Congratulations to the Top 23 Audubon Adventures Chapter Sponsors for 2006-07
*CA, DE, FL, IL, MO, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, TX, WY
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