You are
looking at the latest from Project WILD. Designed for easy
access for teachers, coordinators, or anyone interested in
the Project WILD program, our new web page my be a different
shade of green, but the valuable information remains the same.
You can explore our site to answer any questions you might
have or find interesting activities to stimulate classroom
involvement in and excitement about wildlife issues. Also
on the site, you will find links to important resources to
aide in the implementation of the program in your own school
or community.
2006
WILD Guides
The
2006 editions of the Project WILD K-12 Curriculum and
Activity Guide and the Project WILD Aquatic Guide
have been printed. Project WILD K-12 Curriculum
and Activity Guide revisions include text revisions
along with updated contact information and website links.
The new Project WILD Aquatic
Guide features the newest WILD activity, "Fishable
Waters," which engages students at junior high age in
a thought provoking card game focused on strategically
managing a waterway to ensure it is fishable and
swimmable. In just one class period the card game deepens
the students' understanding about the effects
of natural and human-made environmental disturbances, such
as algal blooms and non-point source pollution, on fish populations
and water quality.
EETAP
Eleven
states are enhancing their Project WILD programs with support
from the Environmental Education and Training Partnership
(EETAP). EETAP is funded through the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Environmental Education
under an agreement between the U.S. EPA and the University
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
EETAP
is supporting two Project WILD initiatives this year: the
creation and enhancement of correlations to state academic
standards; and Growing WILD!, a program to strengthen environmental
education networks.
The
following states are producing correlations to state academic
standards in conjunction with Project WET and Project Learning
Tree: California , New Hampshire , New Jersey , Tennessee
, and Wyoming . North Dakota is working on Project WILD correlations
only and has already finished a first draft. All correlations
funded through EETAP will be available via the Project WILD
website by early 2007.
Five
states are conducting Growing WILD! projects: Colorado , Florida
, Idaho , Ohio , and Pennsylvania . The purpose of these projects
is to enable state sponsors to strengthen their Project WILD programs
by increasing their capacity to enhance leadership skills,
improve infrastructure, and augment the delivery of educator
training.
Wild
About Reading
Check
out the new Wild About Reading Annotated Bibliography of Children’s
Environmental Books from Kentucky. Download the pdf at:
http://lms.jefferson.k12.ky.us/professionalibrary/WildAboutReadingpdf.pdf
This is a publication
of the Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) Center for Environmental
Education in conjunction cith the JCPS Curriculum and Assessment
Unit, JCPS Library Media Services, JCPS Gheens Curriculum
Resource Center, the Partnership for a Green City, the Kentucky
Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the University of Kentucky
(UK) Tracy Farmer Environmental Education Center.
The Wild About Reading
Annotated Bibliography of Children's Environmental Books provides
teachers with an extensive list of fiction and nonfiction
that supports integrated/interdisciplinary instruction based
on environmental themes. The first section includes two lists
of books that have been reviewed and selected by librarians,
teachers, environmental educators, and community members.
One list is for elementary and middle schools; the second
is for middle and high schools. The second section is a comprehensive
database from which books in the first section were chosen.
The searchable database can be found on the JCPS Center for
Environmental Education Web site at www.jcpsky.net/ee or www.kentuckyawake.org.
Using the searchable database online we will allow teachers
to sort books by author, level, content area, environmental
theme, and genre.
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