Education Kits
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. These kits can also be used by Scout leaders or any other adult hoping to educate a group of children about birds and nature!
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:
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Seattle Audubon stuffed animals and/or puppets,
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posters, picture books,
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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.
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.
Ordering Information
To reserve an education kit, please contact Jordan Riddle, Education Assistant, AmeriCorps Member, by phone at (206) 523-8243 x36 or by email at jordanr@seattleaudubon.org. Education kit rentals require one week advance notice. For more information about how to reserve an Education Kit.
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SAS Stock Photo
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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.
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