Project WILD Educator Workshops
Educator Workshops
Sensing Nature's trained Project WILD facilitators conduct fun and educational workshops (usually six hours long) for Florida educators - both formal classroom teachers and informal educators, including education center employees, homeschool educators, and scout leaders.
Sensing Nature offers the following "Project WILD" trainings for adult educators in the Tampa Bay area:
Sensing Nature's trained Project WILD facilitators conduct fun and educational workshops (usually six hours long) for Florida educators - both formal classroom teachers and informal educators, including education center employees, homeschool educators, and scout leaders.
Sensing Nature offers the following "Project WILD" trainings for adult educators in the Tampa Bay area:
- Project WILD* (K-12)
- Aquatic WILD* (K-12)
- Flying WILD* (targeted for middle school but adaptable)
- Growing Up WILD* (ages 3-7)
- Science and Civics: Sustaining Wildlife* (grades 9-12)
- Schooyard WILDlife (K-6 or K-12)
FAQs
What are 'Project WILD' trainings? 'Project WILD' is the overall name for all of these trainings, as well as the name for one specific training. At these lively and engaging professional workshops, participants are introduced to Project WILD materials, activities, and strategies. Through hands-on practice, educators gain the experience and confidence needed to work with their students and to integrate Project WILD into their teaching.
What is included in the trainings? Project WILD workshops vary according to local needs and resources. However, workshops typically include an overview of the program, participation in Project WILD activities, information about Florida wildlife, and curriculum or program plans for using Project WILD with students. Correlations of Project WILD activities to your Florida's standards are generally available upon request.
Resources for after the trainings? As a part of Project WILD's commitment to environmental education, we also help connect educators to other national and statewide programs that offer quality environmental education resources. Project WILD workshops include information about additional curriculum materials, training opportunities, individuals, agencies, and organizations that serve as resources as well as materials about the natural resources and environmental issues within our state.
What are 'Project WILD' trainings? 'Project WILD' is the overall name for all of these trainings, as well as the name for one specific training. At these lively and engaging professional workshops, participants are introduced to Project WILD materials, activities, and strategies. Through hands-on practice, educators gain the experience and confidence needed to work with their students and to integrate Project WILD into their teaching.
What is included in the trainings? Project WILD workshops vary according to local needs and resources. However, workshops typically include an overview of the program, participation in Project WILD activities, information about Florida wildlife, and curriculum or program plans for using Project WILD with students. Correlations of Project WILD activities to your Florida's standards are generally available upon request.
Resources for after the trainings? As a part of Project WILD's commitment to environmental education, we also help connect educators to other national and statewide programs that offer quality environmental education resources. Project WILD workshops include information about additional curriculum materials, training opportunities, individuals, agencies, and organizations that serve as resources as well as materials about the natural resources and environmental issues within our state.
Interested in scheduling a workshop for your own group? Contact us.
Project WILD
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The Project WILD K-12 Curriculum and Activity Guide focuses on wildlife and habitat. It is organized into topic units and is based on the Project WILD conceptual framework. Because these activities are designed for integration into existing courses of study, instructors may use one or many Project WILD activities, or the entire set of activities may serve quite effectively as the basis for a course of study.
Each Project WILD activity contains all the information needed to conduct that activity including objectives, method, background information, a list of materials needed, procedures, evaluation suggestions, recommended grade levels, subject areas, duration, group size, setting, and key terms. A glossary is provided as well as an index cross-referenced by topics and skills. More Project WILD Info |
Aquatic WILD
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Water in all its forms is one of the most dramatic of today's arenas in which informed, responsible, and constructive actions are needed. Aquatic WILD uses the simple, successful format of Project WILD activities and professional training workshops but with an emphasis on aquatic wildlife and aquatic ecology.
The Aquatic WILD program and curriculum guide is available to formal and nonformal educators who attend an Aquatic WILD training through our Project WILD state partners. For more information, please click on “Get Training.” If you’re already an Aquatic WILD educator, feel free to browse the many resources found to the right for unit planning, WILD Work, In Step with STEM, field investigations, and more! More Aquatic WILD Info |
Flying WILD
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Targeted for the middle-school audience, though widely adaptable, Flying WILD offers practical hands-on classroom and outdoor field investigation experiences connecting real-world experiences in bird biology, conservation and natural history.
Project-based classroom applications, service learning and community involvement are encouraged through sections of the guide dedicated to the planning and implementation of birding festivals. More Flying WILD Info |
Growing Up WILD
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Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education program that builds on children’s sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and the world around them. Through a wide range of activities and experiences, Growing Up WILD provides an early foundation for developing positive impressions about the natural world and lifelong social and academic skills.
Growing Up WILD is a multi-award winning program having received the 2009 Family Choice Award and the 2011 Renewable Natural Resource Foundation Excellence in Journalism Award. More Growing Up WILD Info |
Schooyard WILDlife
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Schoolyard Activities & Ecology workshops provide educators with high quality, Florida-specific natural history and ecology lessons, and natural science explorations. The Activity Guide contains 35 field-tested activities with blackline masters focusing on wildlife education and ecology on school grounds. This four- to six-hour workshop targets educators in grades K-6. Participants receive the Handbook to Schoolyard Plants & Animals and the Schoolyard Wildlife Activity Guide.
Optional Add On: Florida's Water Resource Activity Pack was designed to complement Schoolyard Wildlife Activity Guide. The activity pack was designed to help you use your schoolyard to explore a variety of water related concepts and issues. The activity pack contains 11 complete lessons focusing on topics ranging from the role of plants in the water cycle to water pollution. Florida's Water Resources Activity Pack is included with the Schoolyard Activities and Ecology workshops. More Schoolyard WILDlife Info |
Schooyard WILDlife
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Schoolyard Ecosystems workshops teach educators about local ecosystems and how to involve their students in the creation, restoration or enhancement of native wildlife habitats on school grounds.
Participants receive the Schoolyard Ecosystems for Florida: A Guide for Planning, Installing, Maintaining, and Using. More Schoolyard WILDlife Info |
