Project+Wild

=**Project Wild**= Project WILD is a Kindergarten through 12th grade environmental and conservation education program emphasizing awareness, appreciation and understanding of wildlife and natural resources. It is interdisciplinary and supplementary and can be used to teach basic skills in science, social studies, language arts, math, art, music and physical education. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department sponsors a suite of Project WILD programs, each offering a special iteration of this outstanding, hands-on approach to learning.

It is Mr. Swope's intent to begin to integrate Project Wild activities using the resources offered by the Outdoor Learning Center and build bridges backwards to K-8 teachers and students.

As the implementation is in its nascent stage, activities are limited but ever expanding.


 * Current Activities**

**Is your water polluted?** This simple exercise introduces the relationship between water quality, animal presence and diversity and animals as indicator species. It is also an excellent introductory exercise for freshman biology students to get them familiar with working outside and becoming actual observers of the environment rather than mere pedestrians upon it.