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.
Our 25th season begins in September. The all–new Audubon Adventures kit’s title is “Feats of Nature”. This acclaimed classroom kit helps 3rd through 6th graders form positive attitudes about nature. Each classroom kit includes a copy of our new how-to guide “Nature Journaling for Everyone.” This guide provides helpful information, advice, and techniques for starting and keeping a Naturalist’s Journal. Also, our 48 page Classroom Resource Manual helps an educator provide in depth instruction on the topics and includes action components to use inside and outside the classroom.
- How Animals Defend Themselves: Stink, Bite, Hide, Fight! Animals of all kinds defend themselves against predators using an array of adaptations such as quills, camouflage, and other physical attributes as well as behaviors such as hiding and playing dead. Predators, in turn, have strategies for foiling their prey’s defenses. This ongoing drama plays out in habitats worldwide.
- Animals that Migrate On the Go! Across North America, the progression of seasons marked by the travels of migratory animals. These amazing journeys are taken by an equally amazing variety of species, ranging from tiny hummingbirds to might gray whales.
- Plants Rule! It’s hard to imagine life without plants: these leafy lives able to make their own food using solar energy green every continent except Antarctica. Not only do they feed the world, they house most animals and insects as well. And they supply our oxygen, breathing in the carbon dioxide we exhale and breathing out oxygen we inhale.
- Critter Construction: How, What, and Why Animals Build. All kinds of animals are amazing builders. They construct nests, shelters, and traps of all sorts, shapes, and sizes from wood, mud, spit, silk, and other materials. No matter the creature, the materials or the structure, all animals build for the same reason-to survive.
Each issue contains inquiry-based fun activities, high interest content and hopeful messages for teachers and students alike. Audubon Adventures is correlated to national and state learning standards and helps students form positive attitudes toward the natural world in the local community.
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.
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 2009)
Congratulations to the Top Audubon Adventures Sponsors for 2008!
*CA, DE, FL, IL, MO, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, TX, WY
