Education

 

Interested in certifiying your backyard for birds and butterflies and other wildlife?  Click onto National Wildlife Federation's program at   www.nwf.org/affiliatehabitat

 

CWF offers nature education programming for schools from K-12. 

The program choices are:

• Life on the Prairie
  The wildlife, history and habitat of the Colorado prairie.
• Colorado's Life Zones
  Compare and contrast adaptations and human use of habitat zones from the plains to the alpine areas.
• Wetlands
  What is a wetland and what lives there?
• Threatened and Endangered Species
  A discussion of the history of individual species, the causes of species decline,  what is done to help prevent listing,  and what can be done to help threatened and endangered species.

CWF also offers field study trips to Two Ponds National Wildlife Refuge.

To inquire, please call the office at 303-987-0400 x 1.

Coming soon: powerpoint version of Colorado's Life Zones.   CWF NEEDS A PROJECTOR FOR OUR LAPTOP COMPUTER TO ENABLE USE OF THIS POWERPOINT IN THE CLASSROOMS.

                    PROJECTOR SPECIFICATIONS:  minimum ov 800 lumens or higher preferred; minimum 800 x 600 svga

                                                       high definition a plus 1024 x 768 svga or higher

See also Nature Detectives: Life in the Zone.  This is a 4-page insert in the Summer 2007 issue of Images, the quarterly newsletter of Boulder County Parks and Open Space.  It includes an introduction to the concept of life zones, summary descriptions of each zone from prairie to alpine, and examples of plants and animlas that inhabit each zone.    This is suitable for teachers and it offers a quick review or as study material for grades 4-10.   

         Permission to post from Boulder County.

 

CWF receives a portion of its funding for these important programs from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District - Jefferson County. www.scfd.org