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Wildlife Science Education for Grades 3–12 guides and encourages youth to learn about the wildlife around them. The first section introduces the basic wildlife groups to youth in upper elementary school using hands-on and other activity-based learning techniques. Young learners will understand the similarities and differences between mammals, birds, fish, and herptiles. The activities for middle schoolers expand the study to interactions within and between them. The lessons for high school students are based on topics of importance to homeowners, residents of a watershed, food and fiber producers (farmers), mayors, teachers, and policy makers. This section delves deeper into the study of wildlife and will help prepare students to study these topics at the college or university level. This final section is intended for adults who work with youth. It includes suggestions about instructing youth, next-generation science standards, and answers to questions asked in sections 1–3.

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Natalie J. Carroll is a Purdue University professor with extensive experience in curriculum development. She and her creative writing teams have composed thirty-two natural resource, activity-based curricula for youth and twenty-three grant-funded projects. She and her coauthors have received ten national awards for their work. She has also published numerous journal articles and educational works for youth and adults, and has presented her work to hundreds of conferences in Indiana and around the world. Carroll received the Christian J. Foster Award for Contributions to K–12 STEM Education from Purdue in 2016. Theodore Leuenberger regularly works with Purdue University faculty on a variety of publications and projects. He taught junior and senior high school biology, general science, and earth science for thirty-seven years, and contributed to seven publications, most recently ""Field Studies as a Pedagogical Approach to Inquiry"" in Science as Inquiry in the Secondary Setting. He has copresented his work at dozens of national and state science teacher association meetings, and he received the Purdue University Department of Education Distinguished Alumni Award in 2002. Katherine Leuenberger attended Purdue University and earned a bachelor's degree in wildlife science. She also attended Texas Tech University, where she studied urban birds and received a master's degree in wildlife, aquatic, and wildland science management from the Department of Natural Resources Management. Leuenberger has worked as a vegetation program manager, forester, nongame specialist, and biological technician for the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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