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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bird Watching 101

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the basics of bird watching, finding and interpreting bird clues and attracting birds to a particular location or habitat. They go on a birding hike after a lecture on what to look and listen for in the woods.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Birding Basics

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders understand the bird identification by sight and sound. In groups of 3-4, they use binoculars, field guide, checklist, and pencil and hike around the pond and through the woods, pointing out birds along the way.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: E Bird

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge database is accumulating that can be used by educators and scientists to examine the status of bird populations in locations of their choosing. It is becoming a goldmine of information about bird biodiversity around the globe. All...
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National Audubon Society

John James Audubon's Birds of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is the online version of John James Audubon's "Birds of America," as written by Audubon himself in 1840. The site includes the original artwork and text descriptions of each species of bird.
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Other

The Virtual Bird: Birdsounds

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a number of sounds files with birdsongs of many different types of birds.