Looking to connect with our education team?
Want a memorable, meaningful outdoor education experience? Let’s connect!
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Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance's education team has created and curated a selection of lesson plans, stand-alone activities, and more for you to use in your home, classroom, library, or community center! All programming is FREE for students and teachers — so contact us today!
Whether it’s a one-time visit or forming a long-standing partnership with a classroom or center, we will come to you and bring the supplies we’ll need. We strive to get kids excited about nature in their neighborhood, and reinforce the idea that you don't need to travel to find wildlife.
For all of our programming, we work with teachers to ensure that our lessons meet classroom goals and build off of material that kids are already learning. Many of our lessons incorporate STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) themes.
Keep reading to find out more, or contact us at education@swibirds.org. If you use our activities, we'd love to hear from you too about how it went.
Outdoor Ed Lesson Sampler
A menu of lessons ready to go. You choose, we’ll teach. This is the best place to start if you want a one-time visit.
A group of kids has found a bumble bee! They know they have nothing to fear, since they’ve learned all about pollinators in their Outdoor Education lessons.
Lesson & Activity Kit Library
Materials and lesson plans, free to borrow. Pickup & drop off location is at our office in Madison, WI. We cannot ship kits.
There are a variety of kits, ranging from binoculars to (faux) scat, furs to games like Bird Beak Buffet.
Lessons for Educators
Learn techniques to confidently teach kids in the outdoors.
A teacher helps her student identify leaf parts in their outdoor classroom.
Banner photo: students at Goodman Community Center on a field trip with the education team. Photo by Rebecca Ressl.
