FILLing CLASSROOMs WITH WATERFOWL AND WETLANDS!

Another successful Junior Duck Stamp season is coming to an end. For three years now California Waterfowl has offered free classroom and group presentations to grades K-7. This dynamic science and art program inspires conservation by bring nature to the classrooms. This season educators choose from four interactive topics: Flight and Migration, Wetland Plants, Waterfowl Adaptations, and Nesting and Breeding Behaviors. These three-quarter-hour science based presentations allowed students to get up close and personal with real wetland artifacts (wildfowl skulls, feet, wings, nests, and full mounts) to explore the natural wonders outside their classroom walls. Following these presentations students were lead through a step-by-step art lesson teaching them how to use their observational skills in artistic ways.

Scheduling
Presentations for this season are booked. But we will be back next season! To get more information about this amazing science and art based program, or to get on a waiting list for Fall and winter 2008-09 please email cwaeducation@calwaterfowl.org or call Sarah Johnstone (916)-648-1406.

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Background & Testimony
California Waterfowl has partnered with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for three years to increase opportunties for participation in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program. In 2006 -07 over 4,200 students received free presentations. For many of those mostly urban students, “nature” has never been part of their lives.

"Their enthusiasm and curiosity was obvious through their firecracker succession of questions (“Why don’t ducks sink in the water?” “What is the bird in my front yard that sounds like a dinosaur?”) and the way they marched out to recess with their field journals, eager to observe the previously unnoticed animal life living all around them."
--Victoria Van Duzer