Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., PT
Format: In person
Audience: K-5th grade educators, formal and nonformal
Materials Provided: Project WILD’s Flying WILD: An Educators' Guide to Celebrating Birds
Description:
Join ONREP for an engaging, hands-on professional learning experience exploring coastal birds through the Flying WILD Activity Guide. Using birds as a gateway to understanding ecosystems, this workshop connects wildlife, habitat, and human impact along Oregon’s coast.
Participants will experience a sequence of interactive activities, adapted to highlight coastal and seabird species, that model how to engage learners in observation, inquiry, and systems thinking. Together, we will examine how coastal birds depend on dynamic habitats such as rocky shores and open-ocean systems, and how these relationships can anchor cross-disciplinary learning.
Educators will leave with strategies, resources, and ready-to-use activities that support standards-aligned instruction and foster environmental literacy. Project WILD emphasizes helping students develop awareness, knowledge, and decision-making skills that lead to responsible actions for wildlife and natural resources.
This workshop is designed for formal and nonformal educators interested in integrating outdoor learning, wildlife science, and student-centered inquiry into their teaching, both indoors and outdoors.
Considerations:
This workshop includes time indoors and time outdoors walking on the beach.
Transportation between the workshop site and the beach access point will be provided by van or carpooling. (About one mile each way.)
Access to the beach is by means of a stairway.
Please reach out to ONREP with any accessibility concerns.
Brought to you by: Tolovana Arts Colony, Friends of Haystack, Haystack Rock Awareness Program, Wildlife Center of the North Coast and Oregon Natural Resources Education Program (ONREP)
Registration required and will close approximately 1 week prior to the workshop or when full. Offered at no cost to Oregon Educators. Must be 18 years of age or older. PDUs available. Substitute reimbursement available on teacher workdays.