On September 9-10, 2010, Udege Legend National Park, Education Department of Krasnoarmeisky district and the Phoenix Fund organized a two-day workshop for educators of Krasnoarmeisky district (northern Primorye, Russian Far East). During the workshop Alexander Vrisch, coordinator of Phoenix’s educational projects, presented an Educator’s Tool Kit on Amur tiger, including a Teacher’s Guide and a DVD. The Kit was developed by 20 educators from eight districts of Primorye, representatives of Wildlife Conservation Society-Russia, Greenpeace-Russia, Primorsky Institute for Further Training of Educators, Lazovsky Nature Reserve, and representatives of Khabarovsky National Pedagogical University and All-Russia Nature Conservation Society from Khabarovsky krai.
The idea of creating of such materials has been discussed for many years. Thanks to support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service we turned this idea into a tangible reality. The teacher’s guide contains over 95 lessons in total. The lessons include materials that are considered appropriate for children between 3 and 17 years of age and can be used by teachers during various lessons and events, namely:
1) Pre-school education;
2) Drawing lessons;
3) Life safety basic lessons;
4) Math and logic;
5) Russian language and literature;
6) English language;
7) Biology;
8) Ecology;
9) Lessons devoted to tigers; and others.
Each lesson includes goals, methods, information on the theme, games and tasks for various age groups, materials for printing, tests and homework tasks, information on slide presentation and video fragments available on the DVD. The “Teachers for Tigers” DVD contains all information from the teacher’s guide, additional information on the themes covered by lessons, as well as slide presentations, video fragments, photo materials and materials for printing (games, quizzes etc).
The Phoenix Fund is going to hold a number of workshops for educators of other districts of Primorye in the nearest future in order to teach them how to use the Kit during their lessons at schools.
