Item description for A Home For Pearl Instructional Guide Booklet Wildlife Education Reference

"Dear Educator: Any one who has read or seen "The Wizard of Oz" knows that, for Dorthy and Toto, there's no place like home. The same is true for wildlife. Each type of animal on earth has a special home called its habitat. A HOME FOR PEARL is an educational video that teaches young people from ages six to twelve about wildlife habitats. If you're a classroom teacher, museum educator, club leader, naturalist, or parent, this guide will help you use the video to teach lessons about the habitat requirements of wild animals. Foure familiar animals, a robin, rabbit, bam owl, and bald eagle, are featured in A HOME FOR PEARL. We chose these four specific animals because they are the most popular wildlife species among elementary school students, according to the national survey we conducted with the publishers of Weekly Reader. The popularity of these animals draws children into the drama of A HOME FOR PEARL as they learn new facts and concepts about wildlife habitat. The "star" of A HOME FOR PEARL is a bald eagle, named Pearl because of her pearl-white head. The children in the video are introduced to her at a wildlife rehabilitation center where she is recovering from wounds. When she heals, she'll be released back into the wild. Not just any home will do, though. The challenge the children take on themselves is finding the wild home that's best for a bald eagle---not an easy task! This guide provides lots of ideas to make teaching about wildlife habitat easy and fun. By viewing the video and then participating in the activities suggested here, children will learn about the richness of wildlife that exists in their everyday lives. They may be surprised to discover there are plenty of wildlife habitats all around them---even if they live in a big city!..." [from book by (signed) Miriam Olivia Westervelt, Project Leader, A HOME FOR PEARL]