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Teachers
The
Buffalo Audubon Society is a conservation and education organization.
The Society's mission of conservation promotion is most prominently pursued
through educational services to the community, particularly by serving
as a resource to teachers and students.
Teachers: Buffalo Audubon supports your science curricula through several
means: Nature Center Tours for your students, Naturalist
Presentations in Classrooms, Audubon Adventures
Curriculum Kits, and Teachers In-Service trainings.
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Naturalist
Presentations in Classrooms (outreach): Audubon naturalists come to
your classroom and can tailor the presentation to fit your specific needs.
Buffalo Audubon offers a dozen themed outreach programs, each keyed to
the new New York State Learning Standards. Buffalo Audubon nature center
and outreach programs are listed in the Erie II BOCES COSERS book and
are eligible for reimbursement. Teachers in other BOCES regions please
contact your BOCES representative for opportunities to access these unique
programs and be eligible for partial reimbursement. Contact Audubon program
staff for more information.
Audubon Adventures Curriculum Kits: Developed by the National
Audubon Society, Audubon Adventures is a kit for a 30+ member classroom,
grades 3-6 which includes 4 complete issues of a tabloid newspaper with
activities and projects for the whole year. The kit also includes a nature
video, certificates for each student, a classroom poster, and an extensive
teacher'' resource manual. These kits provide a year'' worth of education
and they are FREE in limited numbers on a first-come-first-served basis
and are underwritten by Buffalo Audubon Society members' fundraising efforts.
Additional kits are available for $39.95 plus s/h. For more information,
please contact Audubon Adventures Chair Alice Brown at (716) 591-9981.
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Hands
On Learning Curriculum Kits: Wildlife biology education, complete
in a box - curriculum, skeletal specimens, and more teach about
birds and wildlife through "hands-on" opportunities. Contact Audubon
program staff on how to integrate a Hands-on Learning Kit into your
education plan. Project GREEN in partnership with national curriculum developer and youth development organization Earthforce, is in pre-development stages for water quality monitoring-focused outdoor education programs, to launch in North Tonawanda. Contact Audubon program staff for more information. |
Teacher Inservice Trainings: Audubon staff has been providing
these skills improvement sessions for many years. Bring fresh ideas to
your classroom and new tools to make learning science fun. Contact program
staff for detailed information on services offered and about tailoring
a program to your specific interests.
Buffalo
Audubon Society Outreach Programs…
Bring a Naturalist to your classroom!
Amazing Adaptions:
By dressing up in different costumes (we'll bring them!) and studying
some skins and bones of different critters, your group will discover why
animals are built a certain way, and what might happen if they weren't.
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Hidden World of the
Pond: Caddisflies, dragonflies, turtles, and frogs all call
a pond home. Our naturalist will bring live animals such as these to your
site, creating a vivid picture of the intricate web that is a pond.
Cold Blooded Critters:
Bringing along a menagerie of live reptiles and amphibians, our naturalist
will illustrate just what separates us from our cold-blooded cousins and
how these animals live.
Native American Life
and Lore: Your Buffalo Audubon naturalist will bring an array
of Iroquois artifacts, making history and nature come alive while playing
historic games and sharing Iroquois stories. *
Field to Forest: An
Ecosystem Exploration: This indoor or outdoor program covers
pollination, hydrologic cycle, seed dispersal, herbaceous plant structure,
native vs. non-native species, photosynthesis, tree structure, tree identification,
competition, and habitats.
Hands on Wildlife:
Your group will have the opportunity to handle many different animal pelts,
skulls, and bones. With help from our naturalist, they will "puzzle out"
just who these remains belong to, and in the process, discover how they
lived.
Survival Skills Workshop:
This outdoor program includes survival priorities, working in a group,
plant identification, and the concepts of condensation and transpiration
in a survival context.
Tracking the Food
Web ("Jigsaw Tracking"): Your group will work together to complete
a puzzle; each piece is a track to identify, and the finished image will
show the importance of each animal in the food web. Concepts include:
tracking, habitat, food webs, animal adaptions, hibernation, domestic
vs. wild, Human/animal interaction & conflict, carnivore/herbivore/omnivore,
and predator/prey relationships.
Exploration Hike:
Even if your site has only a small patch of grass, there is much to discover
and to talk about, and to learn. Wintertime programs can even include
a snowshoe walk (we'll provide the shoes!) This outdoor program covers
pollination, hydrologic cycle, seed dispersal, herbaceous plant structure,
native vs. non-native species, photosynthesis, tree structure, tree identification,
competition, and habitats.
Nature in Action:
Learning about nature through interactive games. Each game will teach
you about diferent aspects of nature including predator & prey, ecosystems,
food chains, and much more. The students will be having so much fun playing
that they won't realize that they are learning.
… All Programs also available at Beaver Meadow Audubon Center and Knox
Farm Audubon Center: call 585-457-3228 for more information and to make
reservations (local to Buffalo).
All programs can be tailored to fit the needs of any age group. Programs
last from 45 min to one hour. Multi-session course are available for a
discounted fee and school teachers are urged to arrange their programs
through BOCES whenever possible.
* - Available for
Auditorium Programs
Students
The Buffalo Audubon Society is a conservation and education organization. The Society's mission of conservation promotion is most prominently pursued through educational services to the community, particularly by serving as a resource to teachers and students.
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Students: In addition to the programs offered by Audubon at its Center or as outreach to the classrooms, Buffalo Audubon also offers other services and opportunities for students of all ages. Student
internships for high school and college students are available.
Contact program staff for more information. |