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RAEI Kids! Educational Outreach

RAEI: Kids! outreach programs were designed to foster a generation of citizens of this planet who are moved to play an active role in saving it. Our outreach programs were designed for the K-12 classroom and beyond and can be catered to the interests, needs and location of your particular group.

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RAEI: Kids! Outreach Goals:

  • Inspiring in our youth an appreciation and deeply felt value for all living things.
  • Leading our children to realize that there IS hope for their planet’s vanishing ecosystems provided that they each take well-informed action.
  • Helping your students recognize that science is not something that just “other” people do in some faraway location.
  • Getting your kids outside and causing them to relate rainforest ecology and adaptations to those they actively observe in their own backyard.
  • Inspiring your students to use photography and other hands-on art activities to express their empathy and the inherent beauty of nature to others.

Stephanie Bowman working on educational outreach in New Zealand.

See a sample lesson plan. 

Our school outreach programs are specially designed to be age-appropriate and to help teachers meet their state science standards.  RAEI consults with various biologists and professional science and art educators, including Stephanie Bowman, developer and teacher of the cross-curricular “Busy-Hands ~ Active-Minds” programs, to create outreach programs just for you that are kinetic, multi-modal, engaging, and FUN!

Here's a list of some of our venues for invited presentations and activities:

  • Hillbrook School, Los Gatos, California (6 activities/presentations)
  • Empire High School (6 presentations)
  • Ocean Shore Elementary School in Pacifica, CA (10 presentations)

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After attending over 20 years of presentations, Roger Repp of the Tucson Herpetological Society said of the presenation given by RAEI Director Paul Hamilton "If [it] wasn't the best ever, it was. . .sure in the top five."

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