Project WILD
A program of the Council for Environmental Education, Project WILD is a wildlife-focused conservation education program for K-12 educators and their students.
Emphasizing wildlife’s intrinsic value, Project WILD addresses the need for human beings to develop as responsible citizens of our planet. Through balanced curriculum materials and professional training workshops, Project WILD promotes awareness, knowledge, skills and commitment.
By attending one six-hour Project WILD workshop you will get the following:
- Curriculum guides containing more than 150 activities
- Correlations to the Show-Me Standards
- Access to a network of educators linked by a common interest
- Ways to take advantage of children's natural interest in WILD life
- A curriculum easily adaptable to many settings, with appeal to children of all ages, backgrounds and learning styles
- Hands-on, fun and interdisciplinary activities
With Project WILD, students will do the following:
- Predict the effect of habitat loss on migrating waterfowl in "Migration Headache"
- Chart the growth rate of a WILD life population in "Turkey Trouble"
- Discover creative writing skills in "Animal Poetry"
- Calculate water use in "Water's Going On?!"
- Map rainfall and vegetative cover in "Rainfall and the Forest"
Additional education opportunities
Contact the WILD office for additional conservation education programs:
- Conservation workshops for educators
- Conservation-related curriculum
- Audiovisual and printed resources
- Discovery Trunks
- Aquatic resource education materials
- Project Learning Tree
Project WILD Aquatic
- Forty more activities emphasizing aquatic WILDlife and ecosystems
- Contains aquatic extensions referenced in WILD guide
- Aquatic guide is included in a six-hour workshop
- Based on the same themes and concepts as the WILD guide
- Offers opportunities for thematic units, research projects and field studies
How to join a WILD workshop
Contact the WILD office at (573) 522-4115 x 3175 or e-mail at briedi.scott@mdc.mo.gov or print out this page, fill out the following information and mail to:
Project WILD
c/o Missouri Department of Conservation
P.O. Box 180
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180
I'm interested in the following topics:
- A six-hour WILD educator workshop
- A combination PLT, WILD or W.E.T. workshop
- Becoming a WILD facilitator
- Giving financial support/sponsoring a workshop.
Name: _________________________________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________________________
City: ___________________________________________________________________
State: _________________________________
Zip: ___________________________________
Telephone: _____________________________
E-Mail:_________________________________
Project WILD sponsors
- Missouri Departments of Conservation
- Natural Resources
- Elementary and Secondary Education
- And others who have an interest in conservation and education.
