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Kim Morris-Zarneke

Kim Morris-Zarneke

Environmental education Program Manager at Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center, co-chair of the Georgia Teacher Conservation Workshop and Project WILD coordinator.

Aug 31, 2026

10:58
to make it easier for them to integrate that into the classroom and by doing that we use project learning tree project wet project wild curriculum to help make those connections and also give them access to a greater resource library on top of that too.
11:14
Most of the standards that we are tying it back to are in that third through 12th grade range.
11:19
But as we've done this over the years, we've started to get college professors who are seeing the need, especially in, I would call the non-traditional programs.
11:27
So we have UGA who is a forestry program, but places like Ogeechee Tech, Tallulah Falls, these colleges who have biology programs, this is allowing them to step beyond the traditional biology programs and dive in to more of the wildlife and forestry things that they may touch on in one class.
11:44
We've also seen an increase over the years in our non-formals who work at state parks, work for an environmental ed centers, who are becoming the places that teachers are taking their kids.
11:54
A lot of kids, they're going to these nature centers.
11:56
So it's the opportunity to help connect them and educate those folks so they can keep telling the message.

14 MINS LATER

25:59
There are all these mini labs, all

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