Whether it’s in a face-to-beak encounter or just reading about wildlife, the natural world has something great to tell us. The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge features a handful of creatures in their educational program: the red fox,white tailed deer, osprey(aka sea hawk or fish hawk), channel catfish, and eastern garter …
Description: Maze in construction paper animal, a great way to introduce trust and trust worthiness. Life is like a maze. So we need to work together and trust each other when we face major obstacles. Project Ideas: Being trustworthy, trusting others, interpersonal, recycling, reusing materials Objectives: 1. Students appreciate a …
Description: Group project with each student in a group re-making a frame from a motion sequence of an animal moving. Each student-made frame will include drawings or text of the student’s favorite foods or activities as well as the diet and habits of the animal. Objectives: 1. Observation of animal motion …
project samples Egret Red Fox Description: Paper frames with negative space cut out in the shape of animas found at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Designs are added to frame and the frame then is layered on top of calendar nature images. Objectives: 1. Understanding of basic elements of design patterns. …
Description: Paper turtle shell or paper butterfly folded into sections for students’ reference drawings of plants at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge Objectives: 1. Familiarization and ability to identify some plants at JHNWR. 2. Knowledge of symmetry in organisms. 3. Both creative and scientific depiction of different plants and animals. Author: Blair …
Have you been feeling the need to become “one with the environment,” but the idea of vast acres intimidates you? If so, John Heinz Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum may be the perfect place for you to begin your nature journey. John Heinz’s safe and user friendly trail is ideal for …
project sample: Description: Learning the structures of wings and applying life lessons. A great project for responsibility and dependability, teaching students to complete a big task. Geese flying south for the winter depend on each other. They need each other in order to complete their goal. Objectives: 1. Appreciating birds in …
Description: Name tag on folded paper with personal drawn designs and taped decorations. Name written on the tag will be similar to an organism’s scientific name, consisting of the genus of an actual organism that can be found at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge (such as Ardea for great blue heron) combined with …
