| Local Teachers Get Help in Their Classrooms |
Audubon Adventures includes games, puzzles, hands-on
activities, as well as captivating stories about the life cycle of plants,
the structure and function of fruits and seeds. They also help teach
the children critical thinking skills relating to protecting plants and
animals from extinction, and survival adaptation techniques of animals
such as sharks and owls. This school year, children in the following schools
will use Audubon Adventures.
Nancy Kendall, a teacher in Gloucester, has written:
Other teachers tell me similar stories and I always
accept their thanks by saying all our chapter asks is that the materials
be used by enthusiastic teachers to develop an awareness, appreciation,
and understanding of our wildlife. When that happens, the children
in area will become good stewards of our natural world. I pass on to you
the thanks I have received from teachers by saying, thank you, the members
of our chapter, for your support of the this important program.
Each year the teachers in both public
and private schools in the nine counties of our chapter are offered materials
that contain important information and concepts that can have a great influence
in forming positive attitudes toward protecting our natural resources and
improving our environment. Our chapter believes that Audubon Adventures
which presents these ideas in the appealing format of a newspaper, is of
such importance that we offer classroom kits to interested teachers free
of charge. Three hundred sixty other chapters throughout our country also
have made these its available to teachers in their areas but only six of
them reached more classrooms than did the Northern Neck Audubon Society
last year.
"Audubon Kits have wonderful information
that is filling out the science program. The chiildren like the newspaper
format. I will continue to use the issues that have previously been
issued and I look forward to using it in the future."