Under 12 years old
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WWT learning
WWT’s learn site gives you a range of teaching resources aimed at primary school children, including stories, sounds and games.
Junior Bird Watchers Field Guide
Point Blue Conservation Science are part of Grow Together. They have produced this activity-based PDF guide for family with children aged 2 – 5.
DUC teaching
For teaching plans and other resources, Ducks Unlimited Canada have a great resources page, including lesson plans, facts on wetlands, video footage and information for farmers and landowners
Crane games
The International Crane Foundation have a good site for resources for educators, as well as for students.
Children and nature
The Children and Nature Network in the US was created to restore the link between the natural environment and children’s well being.
Earth Day
Earth Day is 22nd April. The official website has educational materials and ideas, and there is a lesson plan based on water from the same website.
Discovering wetlands
The Australian Government has also produced a website on discovering wetlands, with school resources, games and even origami creatures.
Ornithology
Cornell Bird Lab has also produced resources around bird-watching and science as part of their Bird Sleuth programme.
Flight of the Swans
The 2016 expedition produced classroom and wetland centre materials about Bewick's swans and wetlands in general.
Where the Wild Geese Go
Follow scientists and school students on an adventure to learn about the migration path of the Light Bellied Brent Goose from Ireland to the Canadian High Arctic and back!
Collaborative animation
Preparing colouring-sheets for schools up and down the flyway, the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society combined them into an animated movie about the spoon-billed sandpiper; over a hundred children in three countries share ownership in the final movie.
Kootenay-Columbia Discovery Centre
Quizzes, wildlife checklists, scavenger hunts, and links to further resources for wetlands in northwestern North America.
Project Godwit
A full pack of classroom materials for Key Stages 1 and 2; covering multiple curriculum subjects, with classroom activities, worksheets, wall displays, videos, and teacher guides.
Colouring books
WHSRN have a wide selection of colouring sheets, along with some word-searches and simple quizzes, for shorebirds on the Western Hemisphere Flyway.
Mazes & colouring-in
Ducks Unlimited's Green Wing for kids has a selection of printable sheets: wetland animals in simple mazes, and colouring-in sheets.
Mudskipper skips!
Learn all about muskippers thanks to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve in Singapore. With facts, colouring-in, and a wordsearch.
WWT make & do
Colouring-in sheets, spotter sheets, paper folding and cutouts on wetland animals.
Exploring by The Seat of Your Pants
Science, conservation and exploration resources for both teachers-educators and children. Live lessons with experts located in the field, story maps, Kahoot lessons and more!
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