Jane Kirkland About Jane Jane Kirkland is a dynamic

							                                                                                                                                 Programs for Schools,
   Jane Kirkland                                                                                                                     Keynote Address,
                                                                                                                              and Educator Workshops.
                                                                   About Jane                                                 Keynote address:
                                                                                                                              I Saw A Bald Eagle Soaring
                                                                                                                              Over My Grocery Store
                                                                   Jane Kirkland is a dynamic speaker as well as an           For all audiences
                                                                   award-winning author. She has been featured on             Length 1 hour
                                                                   Animal Planet’s TV program Backyard Habitat, on
                                                                   National Public Radio, on CN8 television, and is a         Jane Kirkland was a best-selling computer book author
                                                                   regular guest on WXPN’s Kids Corner radio program          whose life and career took an unplanned turn when
                                                                   in Philadelphia.                                           she spotted a Bald Eagle soaring over her grocery
                                                                                                                              store parking lot. Certain the sighting was a rare and
                                                                   She has presented her programs at Disney’s Epcot           important event she notified the authorities only to
                                                                   Center, The Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference for         learn that “Bald Eagles have been seen around these
                                                                   Environmental and Ecology Educators, at National           parts for a good many years now.” Jane quickly con-
                                                                   Parks and National Wildlife Refuges, and schools           cluded she had been living her life with blinders on.
                                                                   and events all over the U.S. Jane and her books have       Wondering what else she might see if she took the time
                                                                   been quoted, reviewed or featured in Better Homes          to look, she set out to explore nature. Her nature discover-
                                                                   and Gardens, Redbook, Family Circle, Parents,              ies became the basis for Take A Walk® Books, Jane’s
                                                                   Parenting, Home Schooling Today and Green                  highly acclaimed, award-winning juvenile nonfiction se-
                                                                   Teacher magazines, as well as the Philadelphia             ries. Her life-changing adventures in “the field” became
"Nature is not a destination.                                      Inquirer and Investor’s Business Daily.                    the fascinating chronicle of her multi-media presentation,
Regular 20-second nature                                                                                                      I Saw a Bald Eagle Soaring Over My Grocery Store. With
breaks™ can benefit us and our                                     Aside from her book awards Jane has received a             infectious enthusiasm, Jane captivates adult audiences
                                                                                                                              as she encourages them to take a “20-second Nature
natural world."— Jane Kirkland.                                    Gold Award for Editorial Excellence from Parenting
                                                                   Publications of America and a Philadelphia Magazine        Break™”. Your event participants will thoroughly enjoy
                                                                   Best of Philly 2003 Award for Best Kids Media              Jane’s extraordinary encounters and calamities with
                                                                   Mogul. She lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania.          nature in the most ordinary of places: her backyard, her
                                                                                                                              neighborhood, and her local park.


School Assembly Program 1                                        School Assembly Program 2                                    Educator Workshop
I Saw A Bald Eagle Soaring                                       The Most Extreme Nature in My Schoolyard                     Creating a Field Guide to Your Schoolyard
Over My Grocery Store                                            Audience K-8                                                 For Elementary and Middle School Educators
Audience K-8. Length 1 hour                                      Length 1 hour                                                Length 4 or 6 hours (2 formats)
Cross curricular (science, environment and                       Science, environment, and ecology                            Limited to: 10
ecology, language arts, technology).                                                                                          Cross curricular

This exciting, fast-paced, interactive, multi-media presen-      A perfect follow-up to Program 1, I Saw A Bald Eagle         This workshop is based on Jane's new book "Creating a
tation is Jane's true-life story of why she left a career as a   Soaring Over My Grocery Store, in the same or succeed-       Field Guide To Your Schoolyard" (Stillwater, 2006). It
best-selling computer book author to write nature discov-        ing school year, this interactive, multi-media program       helps even the most inexperienced environmental educa-
ery books for children. The story begins with a rare and         presents ten of the most fascinating objects of nature in    tor get up-and-running quickly on a Field Guide Project™
unexpected sighting when Jane spots a Bald Eagle soar-           your schoolyard. This exciting and fast-paced program        (FGP). The FGP is a cross-curricular, hands-on, multi-
ing above her grocery store parking lot. Jane tells of hand-     demonstrates the diversity of nature in your schoolyard as   discipline, and multi-genre project, in which students and
taming wild birds, “talking” to birds, and rescuing sick         Jane presents a series of clues in which students must       teachers create a field guide to the nature in their school-
birds—and the consequences of each of her actions. She           guess the “extreme” plant or animal. Then she leads a        yard. The workshop demonstrates ways to lead students
leads discussions about safe close encounters with               discussion on the role each plant or animal plays in our     in the planning, research, development, and creation of a
nature and ways we can protect wildlife. She also dis-           environment and the characteristics that qualify it as a     field guide.
cusses the reasons that plants and wildlife become en-           “most extreme.” Finally, she reinforces her "20-second
dangered and extinct.                                            Nature Break™" message, by revealing the most likely         Educators learn how to find and identify a diverse assort-
                                                                 time of day and time of year students can expect to see      ment of plants and animals in their schoolyard—even
Students learn the secret to Jane’s 20-Second Nature             their top ten plants and wildlife.                           when it appears there are none! Teachers will explore
Break™ as Jane reveals how nature breaks can benefit                                                                          their schoolyard with Jane and learn how to find, observe,
our minds and bodies as well as the nature around us.                                                                         record, map, and document the nature in their school-
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This one-hour assembly program is suitable for large                                                                          yard. Finally, they’ll learn the methods for creating the
groups, mixed-grade groups, and students as young as                                           Kae Tienstra                   book itself, and ways they can incorporate technology.
kindergarten. To facilitate the entire student body, we                               KT Public Relations                     Participants receive a copy of "Creating a Field Guide To
recommend two assemblies with classroom visits for                                                                            Your Schoolyard," a matrix aligning the Field Guide Pro-
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short Q&A sessions.                                                                                                           ject™ to their state academic standards for science,
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                                                                                                                              ecology, and the environment, a set of Take A Walk®
Students receive a color nature bookmark and a discount
                                                                                kae@ktpublicrelations.com                     Books for their classroom, posters, reference materials
for Take A Walk® Books. Schools receive four beautiful                             Rate: $1000/day + expenses                 and other handouts.
color nature posters, order forms for the books, and a                                Half-day rates available
complimentary set of books for their library.                                           for evening programs.
Programs Brochure 2006