Project WILD is a hands-on professional development workshop that emphasizes awareness, appreciation, and understanding of wildlife and natural resources. The workshop is designed to meet the needs of K-12 educators in both formal (classroom) and non-formal (nature centers, museums, zoos, parks, scouts) settings. Throughout the workshop, educators will get a chance to model interdisciplinary activities that include subjects such as Art, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.

Flying WILD is a bird-focused curriculum targeted for grades 5-8 and created by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. The Flying WILD Curriculum is easy to use, works indoors or outdoors, correlates to educational standards, and develops students’ conceptual skills such as analysis, classification, description, estimation, evaluation, inference, hypothesis formation, and problem solving.

Although targeted for grades 5-8, this curriculum is easily adapted to other grade levels. We invite classroom teachers, pre-service teachers, non-formal educators, and children/youth leaders (scouts, 4H, etc.) to participate in this workshop.

Come prepared to spend time both outdoors and indoors. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes, bring water, sunscreen, and any other necessary items. You can pack a lunch and bring it with you.

The workshop duration is typically around 6 hours. You will participate in activity demonstrations.

This is a FREE workshop! Educators will receive training, guidebooks, a certificate, and the chance to instill wildlife conservation values related to terrestrial wildlife resources.

Registration is required, please click here.