The Audubon Adventures newsletters and video packages will be provided to a number of classrooms in the greater Birmingham area during the 1998-99 school term, courtesy of the Birmingham Audubon Society. By placing Audubon Adventures in our community's schools, we are helping fourth and fifth grade students develop an appreciation, awareness, and understanding of birds and other wildlife. Developed by professional environmental educators, Audubon Adventures presents basic, scientifically accurate facts about birds, wildlife, and their habitats and needs. Each issue of the newsletter features natural history subjects which would be of interest to elementary students.
Wildlife habitats in trees, stumps, and underground.
The classroom kits include 32 individual newsletters on the four topics listed above, a 30-minute video on Puffin Adventures , and a National Fish and Wildlife poster on the national refuge system. It also includes a teacher's resource manual and 32 certificates of participation. This year, we sent evaluation forms to the 16 teachers who have used the Audubon Adventures packages in the classrooms during the 1997-98 school term. Their responses were overwhelmingly positive. They were very appreciative of the Audubon Adventures program and wanted to continue to receive the materials for this coming school year.