Audubon Adventures is Audubon’s environmental education program that connects students to the environment and brings the natural world into the classroom. It is designed for teachers and students in grades 3-5. The classroom kit is correlated to Common Core Language Arts & Next Generation Science Standards, and includes student assessment material. Audubon Adventures is fully funded by Bergen County Audubon Society at no cost to schools. The school will also receive membership in the National Audubon Society which includes a full year of Audubon magazine. To learn more about Audubon Adventures go to : education.audubon.org/audubon-adventures-grades-3-5
Exciting news, Audubon Adventures announces its new “digital plus” subscription for 2014-2015.
Birds, Bees and Neighborhood Biomes – learn about bird characteristics and adaptations, the natural history of native bees and their vital role as pollinators, familiar neighborhood birds and other wildlife and how they interact with their environment and ways in which kds can help their wild neighbors. Also includes “Birds on the Move” bird migration poster.
Students receive:
Three ready to print (in school or at home as a classroom handout) student editions with engaging science content
Online student quizzes and puzzles
Kid friendly (and fun) games and infographics
Windows on the Wild videos and live webcams
Teachers receive:
Six E-newsletters
“Birds on the Move” classroom wall poster
Topic background information, discussion starters, lesson plans for classroom and field-based activities, bibliographies, glossary, correlations to Common Core English Language Arts and Next Generation Science standards and assessment questions and answers
Opportunities to participate in community service learning and citizen science projects such as the Great Backyard Bird Count and Pennies for the Planet
Audubon magazine subscription sent to the school address
If you are an educator or know of a school or group that may be interested in participating in the Audubon Adventures program, please contact: Marie Longo MLongo8383@aol.com or 201-498-0809. This year Bergen County Audubon will proudly provide Audubon Adventures kits to 17 schools/groups, 43 classrooms, positively effecting 1,376 students in Northern New Jersey. The cost of these kits was $688, none of which would have been possible without your generous donations. Thank you to all of our members for helping us continue providing such an important resource free to schools in our community.
Welcome to our newest Audubon Adventure’s schools/groups:
Hillside School-Allendale
Hilltop Country Day School-Sparta
Solomon Schechter Day School-New Milford
West Ridge Elementary School-Park Ridge
Welcome back to the following schools:
Emerson Jr./Sr. High School
Garfield 4-H Garden Club
Hoover School-Bergenfield
Meadowlands Family Success Center-Little Ferry
Midland School-Paramus
Oradell Public School
Our Lady of Grace-Fairview
Ridgewood Recreation Department Green Kids Program
Saddle Brook Middle School
St. Elizabeth School-Wyckoff
St. Joseph Academy-Bogota
Tisdale Elementary School-Ramsey
Upper Greenwood Lake School-Hewitt
