The Water and Wildlife of Florida teacher training brought educators to the Florida Museum of Natural History to learn about our states' unique habitats and the organisms that have adapted to them.

In the exhibits we followed water as it flows through the natural environment - from limestone caves and springs to mangroves and estuaries.

Teachers become students and take diligent notes.

Fun with Florida fish, courtesy of our guest speaker Rob Robbins, the FLMNH Ichthyology Collection Manager.

Time for fun - teachers gather in groups to rotate through activity stations.

A simple game of catch is really a lesson about the amount of water on Earth vs. land.

We explored a few ways to study food chains, food webs and trophic pyramids.

Using simple tools to represent bird beaks, teachers learned about bird beak adaptations.

Do birds have this much fun competing for food?

Teachers became animals and learned about the impacts that non-native species have on them.

Where does our drinking water come from? What happens to rainwater when it hits the ground? Teachers answered these questions by…

Building an aquifer and...

Watching it work.

Lastly, teachers learned new ways to explain why natural resources need to be conserved and used properly.