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Tucson Audubon Society
Environmental Education Resources for Teachers and Students
Urban Biology Curriculum
Series
These are upper elementary science units.
Teaching and learning require active participation to fully utilize and
understand the wonders of the complex world around us. However, with little or no funding
for off-site field trips and with a concentration on testing, many
educators are bound to their school sites. To this end, three unique
science curricula that have been developed as part of the Tucson Audubon
Society’s Urban Biology Series make use of the countless, living-science subjects just outside the school doors. Get your copies now,
on sale for $10.00 each in the Tucson Audubon Nature
Shop,
southeast corner of University Blvd. and 5th Ave.
1. Desert Birding in Arizona, by Doris
Evans (focus on urban birds)
2. Urban Weeds (Dr. Strangeplant), by David
Lazaroff
3. Arthropodantics
(arthropods) by Janet Bardwell, Doris Evans, and Robin Roche
TREE Center
The Tremendous Resources in Environmental Education
Center offers lots of great educational materials you can check out from Tucson Audubon Society,
free of charge! Materials include books, videos, audio tapes, and resource kits.
There are six resource kits:
Mammal, bird, and reptile skulls
Bird specimens
Bird nests
Bird eggs
Binoculars
Urban birding kit (corresponding to the Urban Birding in
Arizona curriculum—see below)
Resources may be checked out for varying lengths of
time, two weeks being the norm. There is only one set of each kit, and due
to the high demand, advance reservations are strongly suggested. Call
first to inquire
about availability, resource specifics, or to reserve materials: Carrie Dean, 622-2230.
Mason Audubon Center Activity Kits
The Mason Audubon Center is located in
northwest Tucson at 3835 W. Hardy Road on the southwest corner of
Thornydale and Hardy Roads. Activity kits may be checked out for up to two
weeks, free of charge; advance reservations are strongly recommended.
Educators are responsible for picking up the kits from and returning them
to the Mason Audubon Center and for replacing/repairing lost or damaged
materials. The Mason Audubon Center kits contain corresponding curriculum.
The following is a list of each
kit available from the Mason Audubon Center: Introduction to Birding,
Birding in the Field, A Bird’s Tool Kit, Incredible Journeys: Migration,
Saguaro Story, A Sonoran Sense of Place, Desert Adaptations, Botany
Basics, Plant ID: Learning to Use a Key, Ironwood: Trees of Life, Tracks
and Scats, Skulls, Arthropod Adventures, Herps and Bats.
Mason Audubon Center Field Trips
Educational and environmental groups may
schedule a visit to this 22-acre, ironwood-saguaro habitat site for a fee
of $25/hour with a minimum of 2 hours. Groups are scheduled on a
first-come, first-serve basis and must be accompanied by Mason Audubon
Center staff or naturalists for the duration of the program. To learn more
about the site and its resources, see contact information below. Limit of
30 students per visit.
Classroom Presentations
In-class presentations, in a wide array
of topics, can be arranged. Presentations are $25/hour. Topics include,
but are not limited to: Arthropods (with live tarantula and scorpion),
Reptiles (with live snake), Introduction to Bird Identification, Saguaro
Story (Interrelationships), Skull Lesson (Mammal Skulls), Desert
Adaptations, Birding In and Around Your Schoolyard. (We provide
binoculars; we have 33 pair).
To reserve resources or activity kits, or to
arrange a classroom presentation or field trip to the Mason Audubon
Center, please call Carrie Dean, Education Program Manager, at 622-2230 or
email .
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