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Connecting Children to Animals

Apr 11, 2018

Connecting Children to Animals

NSTA Position Statement on Responsible Use of Live Animals and Dissection in the Science Classroom: http://www.nsta.org/about/positions/animals.aspx

CDC animals in schools: https://www.cdc.gov/features/animalsinschools/

NABT: https://nabt.org/Position-Statements-The-Use-of-Animals-in-Biology-Education

Migratory Bird Treaty Act

https://www.fws.gov/birds/policies-and-regulations/laws-legislations/migratory-bird-treaty-act.php

Certified Wildlife Habitat (National Wildlife Federation):

https://www.indianawildlife.org/habitat-programs/wildlife-friendly-certification-program/

https://www.nwf.org/sitecore/content/Home/Garden-for-Wildlife/Create/Schoolyards/Schoolyard-Sign

Monarch Waystation:

https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/certify.html

 

Animal Rehabbers in Indiana:

https://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files/fw-RehabList.pdf

Blogpost and Podcast—Loose Parts Nature Play Animal Play episode

http://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2015/03/16-ideas-for-animal-play.html

 http://insideoutsidemichiana.blogspot.com/2015/02/beginning-bird-books-activities-and.html

 

•Apps—Merlin Bird ID

•Facebook Groups—IN Nature, Birding in Indiana, ICAN Learn Outdoors, Indiana Wildlife Photography, Insect Identification, Hoosier Herpetological Society

 

David Sobel Article:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/education-for-life/803

 

52 Things Outside:

www.52ThingsOutside.org

Growing Up Wild:

http://www.projectwild.org/GrowingUpWILD.htm

Purdue’s Nature of Teaching:

https://ag.purdue.edu/extension/nature/Pages/lesson.aspx

 

Article:

Scaly, Slimy Fun in Prekindergarten

Eastburn, Mark; Ackerman, Andrea; Jones, Bevan. Science and Children; Washington Vol. 55, Iss. 2,  (Oct 2017): 48-55.

 

Quote:

•Cultivating relationships with animals, both real and imagined, is one of the best ways to foster empathy during early childhood. Children want to run like deer, to slither along the ground like snakes, to be clever as a fox and quick like a bunny. There's no need for endangered species here – there are more than enough common, everyday species to fill the lives of children. And the environmentally correct notion of not anthropomorphizing animals can be thrown out the window. 

  David Sobel

 

Resource: 

 Kauffman Field to Nature of the Midwest (aff link):

https://amzn.to/2GQWPVJ

 

 Identiflier (aff link):

https://amzn.to/2HfbNs2

 

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