Outdoor Skills Education

The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies has released six new publications in its award-winning North American Conservation Education Strategy Tool Kit for Achieving Excellence. The new publications include Fostering Outdoor Observation Skills, Landscape Investigations Guidelines, Schoolyard Biodiversity Investigations Educator Guide, Project-Based Learning Model, Outdoor Skills Education Handbook, and Sustainable Tomorrow: Applying Systems Thinking to Environmental Education Curricula, for Grades 9-12. These and other publications are available for free download.

The Conservation Education Strategy Tool Kit contains resources developed by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) to support conservation educators who offer fish and wildlife based programs.  It includes resources developed as part of AFWA’s Conservation Education Strategy:

  1. Conservation Educations Foundations &  Poster of Top 11 Core Conservation Concepts
  2. K-12 Conservation Education Scope and Sequence: an Educator’s Guide to Sequential Learning about Fish and Wildlife
  3. Field Investigations: Using Outdoor Environments to Foster Student Learning of Scientific Processes
  4. Fostering Outdoor Observation Skills
  5. Schoolyard Biodiversity Investigation Educator Guide
  6. Landscape Investigation Guidelines 
  7. Sustainable Tomorrow-Applying Systems Thinking to Environmental Education Curricula for Grades 9-12
  8. Outdoor Skills Education Handbook
  9. Benchmarks for Conservation Literacy
  10. Stewardship Education Best Practices Planning Guide
  11. CE Strategy Toolkit Flyer