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Project Wild!!

This past weekend I attended one of the most useful workshops that I have ever gone to.  It was Project Wild, a workshop that focuses on wildlife and how to better teach it in the classroom.  It was all hands-on which I enjoyed because that's how I believe science should be taught.  As I future teacher I am always looking for new ways to implement concepts into my future classroom and this was definitely one of them.

 The day was full of mini-activities that we could use in our classrooms to help teach our students about wildlife in a fun manner.  We first started the day with an who am I activity which would allow students to guess animals by asking different questions.  Some of the animals were a little more difficult so I would teach about wildlife before playing this game.  Another fun game that we played was Oh, Deer! Some of the students would be deer and the others would be resources such as water, food, and shelter.  All of the activities were a great way to get students involved and engaged in science.  The last activity that we did was a reasoning activity where we all shared our own opinion on a certain topic.  Which I really liked because we got to see each others thinking and I think it would be really good to use in the classroom to address different issues not only for wildlife but for the environment as well.
Overall I thought it was a really great experience! The book that we received contains a bunch of lesson plans that we can use in our future classrooms.  I learned new ways to implement science in the classroom and I'm really excited to use these ideas in my future classroom.

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