Education Trunk
A Closer Look at Whooping Cranes: Whooping Crane Education in Wisconsin and Eastern North America

The Wisconsin DNR and Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership presents, A Closer Look at Whooping Cranes, an education trunk and activity guide available for loan to Wisconsin educators. The program offers whooping crane and wetland-based activities specifically designed to meet Wisconsin Academic Standards.

A Closer Look at Whooping Cranes provides information about whooping crane ecology and biology, details the story of the whooping crane’s decline and reintroduction, and offers over fourteen hands-on activities for classroom teachers, naturalists, and environmental educators to share with students. The education trunk contains teaching tools such as crane skull, egg, and bone replicas, and the isolation rearing costumes worn by biologists who raise whooping crane chicks in captivity. A Closer Look at Whooping Cranes was developed for students in grades 4-8, but the activities can be adapted for students school-age through adult. Preview the Whooping Crane Education Trunk.

Photo of whooping crane.
© Ryan Hagerty, USFWS

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