Reflection Paper On Project Wild

When I first heard about Project WILD, I thought it would be an excellent professional event to attend. Project WILD is a program taught by Indiana’s DNR, and educates teachers and other members of the community about how to teach lessons based around the environment, nature, and animals. The event was hosted in the education building at IUPUI and was put on by the education fraternity at IUPUI. Throughout the day, we learned how to teach lessons about wildlife and the environment to our students. We even got the opportunity to test our teaching skills out and co teach a lesson to the rest of the group. The first thing we did at the event was play animal charades. This was a great activity to do early in the morning because it got all of us up and moving, it was also a great ice breaker because you had to make funny animal movements and noises in front of people you didn’t know very well. After we did the activity we learned how to incorporate the activity into the classroom and how it could be used in a verity of

Not only was it a great learning experience, but I was able to talk to IUPUI education students that were in the blocks ahead of me, and hear their stories and ideas on student teaching. Since I went through project WILD I got two huge books filled with lessons on the environment and wildlife. Growing up in a very rural area, I never thought about how a lot of children in urban areas don’t grow up around the natural wildlife like I did. Since my dad is a huge hunter I will definitely be using him and his deer heads as a resource to my classroom when teaching my students about wildlife. I also learned that IPS has two environment magnet schools. Personally, I am a nature smart learner and so that is something I really want to find out more about! Overall, I had an unexpected great time at project WILD, and I would recommend the event to any teacher or preservice