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The PBS eight NATURE Project is a
partnership between PBS eight, the
Hartley Nature
Center in Duluth, Minnesota, and the
International
Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota, in collaboration with
the
Educational Broadcasting Corporation,
Thirteen/WNET in New York, New York. The project
included lesson plans integrating literature about
wolves with science about wolves developed by the
elementary education candidates of the University of
Minnesota Duluth. These lesson plans for students
in grades K-8 have been included as a continuing
resource for this project. On November 4, 2007, at
the Hartley Nature Center in Duluth, Minnesota, a
special event titled “An Evening with Wolves” was
scheduled. With the haunting sound of howling
wolves as a backdrop in the rustic Nature Center and
the startling sight of actual wolves in natural
settings from the acclaimed traveling exhibit of the
International Wolf Center titled Wolves and
Wildlands in the 21st Century, 150
people were put in the mood for the premier of the
high-definition broadcast of the Nature
program “In the Valley of the Wolves.” This
grant-funded local project helped demonstrate what
the Nature series shows world-wide, every
week: the amazing beauty and importance of the
natural world. |