FILLing CLASSROOMs WITH WATERFOWL AND WETLANDS!

Junior Duck Stamp season is here again! For the past three years, California Waterfowl has offered free classroom and group presentations to grades K-7. This dynamic science and art program inspires conservation by bringing nature to the classroom.

This season educators can 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). Following these presentations students receive a step-by-step art lesson teaching them to use their observational skills in artistic ways.

Scheduling
To get more information about this amazing science and art based program, or to schedule your program for this fall and winter 2008-09 please email cwaeducation@calwaterfowl.org or call Jennifer Tolman at (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