Education Resources

Sharing Birds with Young People

Download our Sharing Birds with Young People (PDF) booklet to get tips on sharing the wonderful world of birds with your students or family! This booklet includes information on binoculars, field guides, and the best birding destinations to travel to with young people.

Seattle is For the Birds

Developed in partnership with Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle is For the Birds (PDF) is a fun workbook that introduces 6-10 year olds to some of Seattle's most common birds.

We hope you will use this book to learn how to look at the birds all around us in a new light. Over a hundred different bird species share our great city. This book features 27 of them. Can you find them all in your neighborhood and nearby parks?

Printing Instructions: Print double-sided, then fold in half and staple. The pages are laid out to be in order when book is printed and folded this way. If you can't print or copy double-sided, tape facing pages together, then fold and staple.

Nature Slides

Seattle Audubon’s large and diverse selection of North American bird slides are available for check-out. A limited collection of international bird, mammal and marine slides is also available. Up to 30 slides may be borrowed for one week at a time.

Fee: Free for Audubon members, $5 for non-members.

BirdWise Classrooms

How can your classroom help birds? Take the pledge to become BirdWise by learning about and protecting important bird habitats. Learn more here.

Education Kits

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Enhance your environmental education and science units with the aid of Seattle Audubon's Education Kits, developed by our Education staff for teacher use in Seattle Public School classrooms.

Each kit comes packed with hands-on props, project and group activity materials, and an easy-to-follow program guide. Props provided in each kit may include: Seattle Audubon stuffed animals and/or puppets, posters, picture books, field guides, binoculars, magnifying glasses, and actual bird specimens, including bird skins (birds that die of natural causes and are prepped by Seattle Audubon for use in education settings), bird wings, bird feet, bird skeletons and/or bones, and feathers.

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Program guides are individually developed for each kit with materials drawn from public environmental education resources, textbooks, and university websites. Each program guide provides instructors with extensive, well-researched background information on a range of topics, as well as instructions to lead an array of fun, age-appropriate group activities and projects. Projects and group activities are adaptable for many ages, group sizes, and settings.

Fee: $35 for one week ($30 for members), $45 for two weeks. $100 refundable damage deposit required. Financial assistance is available.
Group Size: Most kits have materials for 30 students.
Ages: Most kits include activities appropriate for 1st–8th grade. Fledglings is for pre-K and many
kits can be used through 12th grade.
Topics: Kit topics include: raptors, local birds, rainforests, old growth forests, bird flight
physics, and bird song identification. For a complete list, go to Topic Summaries.

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Ordering Information
To reserve an education kit, please contact Kintea Bryant, Education Director, by phone at (206) 523-8243 x11 or by email at kinteab@seattleaudubon.org. Education kit rentals require one week advance notice. For more information about how to request an Education Kit for use in your classroom, download the Kit Rental Brochure (PDF).

Teacher Testimonials
"Fantastic kit! The kids really enjoyed the Symphony of the Birds."
"I wish I knew about you a long time ago! What a great resource!"
"The kids were very engaged."