Keep Texas Wild, 2
Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife
This school year, fourth grade teachers have a new tool—Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine.
Exxon Mobile generously gave us a donation to buy subscriptions for classrooms across Texas.
Managing editor, Louie Bond, says the issues will include a special section called Keep Texas Wild, which encourages curiosity about nature and conservation, using an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond the obvious connection between nature, science and math.
How many great naturalist artists and nature photographers start out with a love of wildlife—and it’s just expressed through art. So, we want to tie in all curriculums: social studies, English, everything. In fourth grade you’re learning everything at once, so it’s really great to be interdisciplinary.
Teachers who log onto the Parks and Wildlife website will find additional resources.
Here at Texas Parks and Wildlife, we have an excellent outdoor education department, and they will be posting online some additional teacher resources for additional activities, more background information. So, if the teachers would like to expand the lesson even further, they’ll have plenty of guidance online.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation also helped make this yearlong pilot project possible.
We have additional information about Keep Texas Wild at passporttotexas.org.
That’s our show… For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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