Birds & Conservation
Birds & Conservation (B&C) is a 4-part series program that teaches why healthy watersheds are critical to birds and all living organisms, and how our actions can protect this vital Colorado resource. Classes can also be stand-alone programs at school or at the Nature Center.
Meets 2020 CAS: Life Science, 2.5, 2.7, 2.11, 2.12 Earth & Space Science 3.6, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11
The series includes three classes at your school and a service-learning project at at the Nature Center. Each classroom program lasts 1 hour, the service project is 2.5 hours. Choose any THREE of these classes:
- Water – watersheds, point source and non-point source pollution, design a water filter
- Ecosystems – roles and engineers in ecosystems, native and invasive species
- Animal Adaptations – how animals survive and adapt, includes visits with live turtle and salamander
- Albatross & Bolus Dissection – includes hands-on dissection of a bolus (undigested materials) so students can see for themselves how birds are literally eating our trash.
Conservation Project
At the conclusion of the classroom sessions, students put their knowledge to work as they visit the Nature Center to complete a service project to improve the health of our watersheds and birds.
Optional field trip:
If you choose, we can also lead your students through a water quality field trip down at our nature center on the S. Platte River and or our ponds. During this field trip we teach your students how to test water quality using both chemical tab tests and Macroinvertebrate indexing.
To request a program, please complete the Youth Programs Request form or email kristen@denveraudubon.org. Each program can be taught separately or as part of a series.