Think Like a Wolf
Step into the wild with your students and see the world through a wolf’s eyes! In this immersive lesson, students adopt the role of wolves in the Yellowstone ecosystem to practice observing, interpreting, and recording signs of animal behavior and impact in their environment.
Listen to wolf tales straight from wolf expert, Rick McIntyre, and get hands-on practice modeling changes to ecosystems.
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Manatee Tales
Dive into the world of manatee conservation with this interactive storytelling game! Students step into the shoes of community members living near a marine sanctuary, exploring real-world challenges, competing priorities, and creative solutions to protect manatees. It’s hands-on, thought-provoking, and a perfect way to spark critical thinking about wildlife and community.
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Sound Science: Listening to Wolves
What if the key to protecting wolves wasn't just watching them—but listening? In this free NGSS-aligned Sound Science: Listening to Wolves lesson, students explore bioacoustics, the science of studying animals through sound, using Yellowstone's wolves as a fascinating case study. Through engaging video content featuring real researchers, they discover how wolves use howls and vocalizations to communicate, build social bonds, and reveal the health of an entire ecosystem. Students then step into the role of wildlife scientists in a hands-on spectrogram activity, analyzing visual representations of sound to identify wolf howls, distinguish them from other environmental sounds, and draw evidence- based conclusions—just like the AI researchers working to protect wolves in the wild today.
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Wildlife Fact or Fiction
Engage your students in a fun movement game to challenge some common myths and test their knowledge about wildlife.
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