Classroom Visits

Our KOSS instructors as well as our partners can visit your classroom and teach a variety of subjects with hands-on activities.  Our curriculum will follow Oregon State Standards for the classroom with activities that enhance awareness and appreciation for the outdoors.  See our lists of subjects below. 

• Mammal Adaptations: Students study skins, skulls, and tracks of different mammals and understand how they survive in their different habitats.  
• Fundamental Forestry: partnered with the Oregon Department of Forestry, students learn the importance of our forests, basic anatomy of trees, and conservation techniques used today. 
• Watershed Workshop: What is a watershed? Where does the water in your drinking fountains come from? Why is water important? What is the value of water?  These questions and more are answered as students become aware that water is an important resource that is not to be wasted.   Topo maps are brought to the classroom to teach topography and the movement of water. 
• Bird Buddies: Ornithology 101! Students appreciate the necessity of birds in our ecosystem.  Migration, adaptation, and bird calls are focused on in this lesson. 
• School Yard Habitat: partnered with US Fish & Wildlife and developed throughout a school year, students map out the habitats that surround their school grounds and learn how to protect or improve them in order to aid wildlife.  Students appreciate the many resources that make up a habitat, specifically food, water, shelter and nursery areas that all wildlife needs to survive.   Concepts such as biodiversity, types of habitats,  and stewardship are understood.  This program offers learning opportunities in science, english, mathematics, history, geography, social studies, and art. 

 Stewardship Program

 In addition to these class visits, please learn more about our Stewardship Initiative Program which provides students with increased access to outdoor and environmental education by helping to integrate environmental education curriculum into students' regular curriculum.

 Click Here for our Stewardship Pamphlet    1.9MB .pdf (takes approximately 60 seconds to load)

Contact Us to Plan your Class Visit Today!

Please fill out our Program Request Form.  Let us know any specific subject you would like taught as we are readily able to shape these programs to fit your curriculum.  Note that this list is constantly expanding - If you have other ideas as well, please let us know about them!