Dialogue for Kids Goes WILD!!!

Idaho has lots of varied terrain, including forests, wetlands and deserts. But what makes these places different? And how do those differences affect the animals and plants that use them? On Tuesday, March 20th, Idaho's school children can ask experts those very questions on Idaho Public Television's Dialogue for Kids. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the federal Bureau of Land Management are cooperating with Idaho Public Television on a series of science shows that air at 2 p.m. Mountain Standard Time and 1 p.m. Pacific Time the third Tuesday of every month. It's a call-in format featuring scientists-in this case biologists from Fish and Game-who will answer students' questions live on the air. But the live television show Dialogue for Kids is just part of the package. There is another component to the project. Teachers and students can find activities and lesson plans on the Internet to prepare for the show at http://idptv.state.id.us/dialogue4kids/. In addition, they can log on to past shows and watch them on the web. Wolves will be the featured topic on Tuesday, April 17. Biologists Michael Lucid and Jason Husseman will discuss how they trap and radio collar wolves and why they keep track of Idaho's wolf packs.