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Environmental Education in Action:

The Audubon Society of Rhode Island is an important provider of environmental education programs and activities accross the state. The photos below illustrate various components of their education activities.

Educators build a wigwam for a program emphasizing the importance of nature to native americans. Audubon volunteer Angelica holds a new educational bird as Kim prepares to attach her jesses. Students watch as Tracey, great horned owl in hand, demonstrates owl calls. A boy lifts an antler as other children examine other biofacts during outreach program. Children race down the Environmental Education Center's boardwalk through a marsh towards Naragansett Bay An educational turtle spends his free afternoon outside. A young boy learning about alarm colors checks his net for bugs that might match his shirt. A young girl, her face painted to look like a cat, is excited to have found a creature at the Environmental Education Center's wetland. Mother and son look for creatures to scoop up from the Naragansett Bay. An Audubon educator helps a family identify an animal they have just found. Students test their knowledge of the world's largest mammals, represented before them by a life-size inflatable finn whale. Inside the head of an inflatable finn whale, students learn about the animal's basic anatomy and how it differs from their own. A ribbon snake takes a whiff of the students gathered before him to learn about vertebrates. At indoor programs, students get the chance to examine real 'biofacts' up close. A girl demonstrates the frame she has made at Audubon's Earth Day celebration. After getting to see a live owl, these preschoolers then get to touch one of its feathers. Cautiously, a boy raises his net from the river at Audubon's Fisherville Wildlife Refuge. Larger than life animals perform for haloween hikers each October. A student tries on owl-eyes for her class. If she were an owl, her eyes would be the size of oranges. Students get to meet the permanently injured American Kestrel for which they recently held a fundraiser.