Teachers
Hey Teachers!
Enhance your classroom activities with the variety of educational resources The Wildlife Experience has to offer. From school tours to an online curriculum to teacher workshops and Educator Open Houses, The Wildlife Experience has plenty to supplement any curriculum. Bookmark this page and check back for program updates.
Dowload our Summer 2008 Educator's Newsletter.
K-12 Curriculum
Welcome to our new K-12 curriculum, “Grasslands of North America and Africa.” These activities were created according to Colorado State Educational Standards and will be a valuable supplement to your science units. Each of the following links will open the curriculum PDF file in a new window.
Introduction and Background
Glossary and Resources
Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-12
Get more information on Colorado State Education Standards.
Elementary Art Shows
Attention elementary art teachers! The Wildlife Experience invites your class to participate in our student art exhibitions that feature a nature or wildlife theme. Exhibition opportunities are available throughout the year. Call (720) 488-3329 for more information. These exhibitions are very popular and space is limited.
Teacher Travel
Your students shouldn’t be the only ones who get to learn! Treat yourself to a well-deserved vacation and earn credit hours at the same time while you enjoy a Kindred Spirits/Wildlife Experience tour to an exotic location.
Student Art Exhibition
Calling all art teachers! The Wildlife Experience is looking for some young talent to participate in our student art exhibition - Nurturing Nature: Growing Young Colorado Artists 2008. Up to 20 pieces of art based on a wildlife or nature theme will be accepted for each show. Call 720.488.3329 or email lyoung@twexp.org for details. Space is limited so make a reservation today!
The Wildlife Experience Outreach Programs
Bringing the museum to YOU!
Book a wildly fun educational program for Fall 08! All classes provided a dynamic and inquiry based experience for students k-12. Each standards based class provides enriching hands on activities, biofacts (animal specimens), interactive models, and even live animals! Instructors engage with students and bring the world of wildlife and the themes of conservation into the classroom.
Shopping for Habitats (Grades 1-5)
Student teams go "shopping" at stations to collect habitat necessities (food, water, shelter, range, habitat type, threats) for five animals' survival kits. Then each team designs and presents a felt board poster of these habitat cards and items. Finally, students meet a live animal to learn about its habitat.
Adaptation Sensation (Grades 3-8)
Student survival teams learn about a variety of different, wacky, and even slightly strange animal adaptations as they rotate through several hands-on stations that focus on specific types of adaptations. At one station teams select materials to create a newly discovered animal species that must survive global warming in an arctic climate. These materials are used to dress up their teacher as their new animal.
The Water Cycle Under Our Feet (Grades 3-12)
Many Colorado communities depend on clean groundwater. Students work with and observe fascinating 3D models of groundwater to explore the water cycle, where water is found on earth, where their water comes from, water as a renewable resource, the consequences of surface and groundwater pollution, and the interconnectedness of all water on earth.
Connecting Our Community's Water Web: Water Cycle in Our Watershed (Grades 3-12)
Students discover how our local water cycle connects all parts of the community's watershed when they create 3D watershed models to show how rainwater moves into lakes and streams. After adding figures, pollutants, and rain to a large community watershed model, students trace the movement of water through the cycle, recognize water as a renewable resource, know common water pollutants, and what each person can do to reduce them.
Click here to view our Outreach Classes standards.
For more information or to request an outreach class, contact Melissa Cole at 720.488.3373.
Prices Fall 2008
Registration for Fall 08 begins July 2008! Book early to ensure availability! Limited summer classes also available for year round/summer schools.
| Program |
Length |
# of students |
Fee |
| Classes |
60 minutes Elem
45 minutes Middle/High School |
30 |
$160/two classes;
$50 each additional class on same day (max of four classes). |
| Pre K and Kindergarten program |
30 minutes |
30 |
$90/two classes;
$30 each additional class on same day (max of four classes). |
Teaching Trunks
The Teaching Trunks provide educators with supplemental hands-on inquiry activities and lab investigations that enrich and complement the topics on living things taught in grades 1-6. Correlated to the 2007 Colorado Science Standards, many of the activities can also enhance middle and high school classes, scouts, 4H, home-schoolers, and informal educators.
What's a Trunk
Our teaching trunks consist of several inquiry-based activities grouped together by a common theme question. Each group of two or more activities is packaged together in one of six mini trunks. All six mini-trunks also contain books that aid educators in creating the essential connection between science and literacy.
Trunk Themes
- How do plants and animals interact?
- What is an ecosystem?
- What are food webs and the web of life?
- How do body parts help an animal eat?
- How do camouflage and skin coverings help animals survive?
- How are living things classified?
- Suitcase for Survival - Why Are Some Animals Endangered?
- What’s the Relationship between Colorado’s Water and its wildlife?
Click
here to download more information about the Teaching Trunks.
