Welcome to WILD Education

More and more teachers, youth leaders, park interpreters, and other Canadian educators are nurturing nature — and young minds — through WILD Education. This eclectic family of learning programs, including Project WILD, Fish Ways, WILD Schools, Focus on Forests, Ocean Education, and Space for Species, is giving youth unprecedented access to knowledge vital to the well-being of our lands and waters. These programs come to you from the Canadian Wildlife Federation — the nation's leader in conservation education — and reflect nearly 40 years of commitment to ensuring a future in which Canadians can live in harmony with nature.

Visitors to this Web site will find an abundance of learning resources as valuable to teachers as to non-formal educators, as inspiring to scouts and guides as to elementary and secondary students. We've provided a WILD Search engine to assist you in finding these curriculum-linked classroom activities and outdoor projects. You can order past and present learning packages by mail or download the latest kicks electronically to save on time, postage, and trees.

You can keep abreast of breaking WILD News, register in WILD Education programs, apply for funding for habitat projects, watch for upcoming workshops, rub elbows with conservation educators from coast to coast, and tam up with peers to share information, discuss important issues, and collaborate on wildlife habitat projects.

• WILD Education brings a wide range of learning resources to teachers of kindergarten through high school.
• Our programs inform young people about important conservation concepts, such as biodiversity, sustainability, ecosystem conservation, and endangered species recovery, while reinforcing skills, like analysis, communication, composition, reading, and research.
• These programs are designed to meet the needs not only of teachers but also of youth leaders, park naturalists, and other conservation educators.
• Our educational materials are planned around specific learning objectives, such as cultivating a sense of responsible stewardship and understanding the link between human activities and habitat health.
• Each program is built upon a conceptual framework, piloted in Canadian classrooms, and reviewed by scientific experts to confirm it's pedagogical soundness.
• Classroom activities and outdoor projects are based on proven principles of teaching methodology.
• Instructional approaches are many and varied to meet students' wide-ranging learning styles.
• Learning activities are cross referenced with the Common Framework of Science Learning Outcomes (Pan-Canadian Protocol for Collaboration on School Curriculum) and support other mandated curriculum areas, such as art, geography, health, history, industrial arts, language arts, math, second languages, and social studies.
  
  

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