Educational Resources on Nevada's
Wildlife -- What's available?
Publications:
There are a number of wildlife-interest articles and brochures available on our website at www.ndow.org
Check-out items:
(Available to those educators who have completed Project Wild training.)
- Traveling Wildlife Trunk, containing furs, antlers, horns, shells, with photographs and activities.
- Wildlife storybooks, and hand and finger puppets (tortoise, snake, lizard, rat)
- Wildlife slide sets
- Videos (endangered species, environmental ethics, snakes, bats, raptors)
- Rubber animal tracks
- Copies of wildlife activities for kids
Teacher
/ student newsletter:
Southern Nevada Wild!
- Volume 3, Issue 4
- Volume 3, Issue 3
- Volume 3, Issue 2
- Volume 3, Issue 1
- Volume 2, Issue 4
- Volume 2, Issue 3
- Volume 2, Issue 2
- Volume
2, Issue 1
- Volume
1, Issue 4
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Volume 1, Issue 3
- Volume
1, Issue 2
- Volume
1, Issue 1
Electronic mailings via the school districts
Also available at www.ndow.org
Teacher workshops:
These workshops provide teachers with the training
they need to implement the following wildlife curriculums
in their classroom.
- Project Wild Teacher Training, Lincoln County
Taught by Margie Klein, Conservation Educator III, NDOW Southern Region, 702-486-5127 x 3502
August 4 & 5, 2009, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. both days
At Caliente Elementary School in Caliente
1 inservice credit through Nevada State Department of Education; also 1 graduate credit available through Southern Utah University.
Call Dorothea Hepworth to register at 775-728-4658.
Project Wild is a nationwide education program with emphasis on wildlife and habitat. The curriculum is for students in grades K-12 and can be adapted to all learning styles and abilities. The interdisciplinary approach of Project Wild fits into a variety of subject areas from language skills to math. Workshop attendees will take home a curriculum book with over 100 wildlife teaching activities.
- Project Wild Teacher Training, Las Vegas
Taught by Margie Klein, NDOW Conservation Educator III, 702-486-5127 x 3502,
Sept. 12 & 26, 2009 , 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. both days
At the NDOW Las Vegas office, 4747 Vegas Dr., Las Vegas
1 PDE credit through Clark County School District
Register through Pathlore
Project Wild is a nationwide education program with emphasis on wildlife and habitat. The curriculum is for students in grades K-12 and can be adapted to all learning styles and abilities. The interdisciplinary approach of Project Wild fits into a variety of subject areas from language skills to math. Workshop attendees will take home a curriculum book with over 100 wildlife teaching activities.
- Aquatic Wild Teacher Training, Las Vegas
Taught by Margie Klein, NDOW Conservation Educator III, 702-486-5127 x 3502
Oct. 17 & 24, 2009, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. both days
1 PDE credit through Clark County School District
Register through Pathlore
AquaticWild is part of Project Wild, a nationwide education program with emphasis on wildlife and habitat. The curriculum is for students in grades K-12 and can be adapted to all learning styles and abilities. The interdisciplinary approach of Project Wild fits into a variety of subject areas from language skills to math. Workshop attendees will take home a curriculum book with over 100 wildlife teaching activities.
- Live Encounters With Reptiles class for families
Taught by Margie Klein, NDOW Conservation Educator III, 702-486-5127 x 3502, with NDOW volunteers
Nov. 14, 2009, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
At the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum
$5.00 fee
Register through UNLV Continuing Education, 702-895-3254
Join us as we learn about the reptiles of the Mojave Desert. We will have close encounters of the scaly kind with live animals as we learn about what they eat, how they live and their special adaptations. Don’t worry, no venomous species are invited.
- Our Places Tell Stories Conference for environmental educators, Las Vegas
February 24 – 27, 2010
At the Las Vegas Springs Preserve
See www.enviroedexchange.org for more information.
- 2nd Annual Wings and Wildlife Festival of Southern Nevada
For birdwatchers and wildlife watchers of all kinds.
March 11 – 14, 2010
In Laughlin on the Riverfront
See www.snbwtp.org for more information.
- Trout in the Classroom
Contact: Ivy Santee, Aquatic Education Coordinator,
(702) 486-5127 x 3503
Correlations to Nevada Education Standards:
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Facilities:
Lake Mead Fish Hatchery Visitor Center: (Coming Soon)
(Hatchery currently closed to tours)
245 Lake Shore Rd.
Boulder City
located in Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
