Animals in your Backyard with IDNR!
Join IDNR on September 28, 2024, to learn about the animals in your backyard in a fun-filled professional development day.
Learn how to identify and look for wildlife in our area. Explore native bees, turtles, and monarchs. Discover how animals are architects and how to create habitats at your school for wildlife. Registration is required at https://www.enticeworkshops.com/.
The cost for the day is $11. You will walk away with $50 worth of books and items you can use in the classroom.
Wildlife is all around us, in large urban areas or small towns! Educators of grades prekindergarten through four are invited to participate as we learn where to look for urban wildlife, what you can expect to find, how to identify species, and how to improve urban wildlife habitat at your school. Natural resources professionals and educators will instruct about these topics and more, including how species adapt to the urban environment, how humans affect urban wildlife, and how to use urban wildlife topics as the foundation for locally relevant, place-based teaching.
Register Now for Upcoming ENTICE Professional Development Workshops
Register soon for ENTICE (Environment and Nature Training Institute for Conservation Education) professional development workshops for educators sponsored by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
ENTICE workshops provide background information, networking opportunities, hands-on lessons, supplemental resources on the topic and the opportunity to work with resources professionals. Professional Development Hours are available. Correlations to relevant Next Generation Science Standards and/or Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards are provided. Shown below is a list of upcoming workshops through September 2024. Walk away with great resources for yourself and your classroom.
Visit https://www.enticeworkshops.com for details, the complete list of workshops and to register. Experience ENTICE!