Wild About Project WILD

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Wild About Project WILD

• An Environmental Science Initiative for InD and
  ASD Students

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Purpose

• Environmental Science Curriculum
• Children not exposed to the outdoors
• Awareness and respect for the environment
• Participate in science discovery and inquiry
• Access Points and Exposure to the FAA
• Lack of comprehensive science curriculum
• Familiarize students with format of the FAA
• Partnership with Florida Dept. of Fish and
  Wildlife
• Implemented during SY 08/09
• Project WILD handbook of Access Points
• Crafts, recipes, computer activities, magazines

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Technology

• Accessible and interactive activities to
  correlate with content
• Access with mouse, expanded keyboard, or switch
• Reinforcement of content and exposure to format
  of Florida Alternate Assessment

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Content Covered

• Classification
• Strategies to teach classification

Parachute Game
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Content Covered

• Habitats

Predator/Prey Game
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Content Covered

• Life Cycles

Matching Adult to Offspring
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Content Covered

• Adaptations

Science Experiment How animals survive cold
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Exposure to outdoor activities and field trips

• Paint palette activity
• Sorting living and nonliving items
• Make a camouflage critter

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Materials Provided

• Handbook of Access Points addressed in Project
  WILD
• Strategies for Independent, Supported and
  Participatory students

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Materials Provided

• CD of activities and assessments for Independent,
  Supported, and Participatory students
• CD of videos in each content area

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Materials Provided
Crafts for reinforcement of curriculum and fine
motor development
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Materials Provided

• Recipes
• Inclusion of language arts and math with
  opportunity to use augmentative communication

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Florida Alternate Assessment

• Provide high and low tech tools for exposure to
  format of the FAA
• Computer activities replicating format of
  assessment
• Data collection on performance

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Florida Alternate Assessment

• Using low tech tool to replicate format of
  Alternate Assessment

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Replicating Format of FAA

• Transition from object

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Replicating format of FAA

• To color and black and white

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Results of Training

• 75 teachers trained
• 67 provided data on implementation
• Improvement in on-task behavior 97
• Increased independent participation in
  cooperative learning activities 79
• Increased active communication within the context
  of the learning objective (asking questions,
  responding) 86
• Increased active listening within the context of
  the learning objective (attention, engagement)
  92

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Linda Laverty Instructional Technology
Specialist FDLRS Alpha Kristy Hoot InD Resource
Teacher Palm Beach Co