Audubon Adventures: Sharing Our World with Birds

By Joyce Trawle
The National Audubon Society’s signature annual curriculum for elementary-age students, Audubon Adventures, is celebrating its 30th year of publication. This excellent resource helps teachers bring the natural world into their classrooms and connect kids to the environment. Designed for teachers and students in grades 3–5, Audubon Adventures offers top-quality nonfiction material from the environmental experts at NAS.

By Joyce Trawle

The National Audubon Society’s signature annual curriculum for elementary-age students, Audubon Adventures, is celebrating its 30th year of publication. This excellent resource helps teachers bring the natural world into their classrooms and connect kids to the environment. Designed for teachers and students in grades 3–5, Audubon Adventures offers top-quality nonfiction material from the environmental experts at NAS.

With captivating hands-on activities, students learn that we all have a personal stake in the health of the environment and we all play an important role in its preservation and improvement.

This year’s theme, Sharing Our World with Birds, includes four topics:

• Seabirds: Feathered Ocean Travelers (starring Project Puffin)
• Hooray for Hummingbirds!
• Raptors: The Birds of Prey
• Caring for Our Planet: Join in the Action!

The fall 2013 Audubon Adventures classroom kit includes printed student materials and teacher guides plus exciting, dynamic online components. The new Audubon Adventures website is fun and interactive and includes links to other Audubon resources about seabirds, hummingbirds, and birds of prey. The site design is teacher tested and appealing to both the computer savvy and the digital newbie.

Through the generous donations of LCAS members, Lane Audubon’s Adopt-a-Classroom Program offers free subscriptions to this outstanding educational curriculum. Check our website for the list of classrooms seeking sponsorship, or contact Joyce Trawle if you have another school or classroom you would like to nominate for sponsorship.

To sponsor a classroom, please mail a tax-deductible donation of $45 (payable to LCAS, Audubon Adventures) to LCAS, PO Box 5086, Eugene, OR 97405.

Thank you to all our classroom sponsors for your generous support!