Program Delivery Options:
1. Live Encounter: Each session includes three live birds of prey. Your students may also get to see a bird rescue demonstrated and will have time for questions and discussion at the end of the session. Each session is followed by question time. Session length is 45min to 1 hour.
2. Raptor-e-cursion: The birds and I arrive in your classroom via your internet connection and projector. 
There will be video of my raptors doing cool stuff, and I will talk to you “live” and answer questions from your students. The session runs for 45 minutes. Contact me or sign up for the newsletter to find out when I will run the next free10min pre-webinar to show you how it works.
A better mouse trap
Current Programs:
How Nature Builds a Better Mouse Trap:
Live raptors bring ‘nature’ to your life sciences students in an inspiring way. Students will encounter three live raptors (birds of prey) during this program while discussing:
- evolution
- adaptation
- ecology
Raptors provoke inquiry and curiosity, as well as awe and rapt attention!
The program includes:
- Class presentation and discussion
- Free raptorial educational videos
- Ongoing support for further learning
- Close encounter with live native raptors
Custom Program (built around your topic):
Engage your students with a raptorial experience. Live raptors captivate teen attention and can inspire further exploration of your topic. Here are some suggestions of curriculum areas where raptors can be useful:
| The Arts | Visual Arts | All areas |
| Society and Environment | Place and Space | Natural and built environment |
| Environmental impact | ||
| Ways people care for the environment | ||
| Natural and Social Systems | Human impact on natural systems | |
| Interdependence between living things | ||
| Science | Life and Living | All areas |
| Energy and Change | Effects of forces on objects (flight) |
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Bonus:
I have set up the Wild Watcher Project Space and am looking for beta testers! Your class may be able to join for free. You can set projects for your students to complete and they will upload the results. This will allow them to collaborate and share with other Wild Watcher members.
Here are some options for projects:
- A bird watching competition – who can enter the most sightings?
- Phone photo contest – nature is the subject
- Nature-themed group poem or ‘rap’, collaborating via their forum.
For those kids who really enjoy this, they can stay on as long as they’d like. I’ll be contributing short videos (about raptors, of course!) and other resources to the site as well. Give me a call to find out more: 040 316 4748. Or subscribe to my newsletter to keep updated on how it is going.