Cahoon Elementary Magnet School of Animal Science

and Lowry Park Zoo

Exectutive PassCouncil for Educational Change

(CEC)

Executive PASS

Objective 1: To enhance the Gifted and Talent Development Academy program at Cahoon by providing students with opportunities to apply their problem-solving skills to address local and global environmental and conservation issues.

Objective 2: To provide academic incentives for students who improve their instructional level in Reading, Writing, Mathematics, and Science on their report cards;

To provide academic incentives for students who demonstrate high levels of performance or academic gains on the following state or district assessments.

October 30, 2008

National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) Tour

Activities

The activities will include outreach presentations designed to build awareness of environmental and conservation issues that will lead to identifying local and global concerns that students will work to address.

Lowry Park Zoo Webcast

Cahoon Elementary Magnet and Lowry Park Zoo recorded 2/20/09 videos

Video 1 – Webcast Introduction Video 2 – Conversation with Zoo keeper

Conservation Projects

Gifted and Talent Development Academy Electives focused on local and global environmental and conservation issues

Cahoon Conservation Clusters