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Interpreting Data from Birdfeeders
What kinds of birds live in your area? Read a book about birds to your learners and explore their feeding patterns. Charts and graphs are provided in this three page packet, but consider assigning the basic questions if using with young...
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Birdfeeder
Students explore animal attraction by participating in a class construction project. In this bird feeder lesson, students discuss the different types of birds that inhabit their native area and identify the seeds they are typically...
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Learning to Make Line Graphs
Learners analyze data and create a line graph. In this graphing lesson, students explore data from a previous experiment and plot the information on a line graph. Learners analyze their findings.
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Bird Cookies
Students create birdfeeders. In this bird lesson, students create birdefeeders. Students use a slice of bread, peanut butter and bird seed to create a birdfeeder.
Dick Blick Art Materials
Fauvism is for the Birds!
Here's a art project that lets kids use bold colors to express their inner wild beasts, and maybe even attract a few wild birds. Using old picture frames, canvases, and screen mesh, young fauvists craft bird feeders and...
ReadWriteThink
Webcams in the Classroom: Animal Inquiry and Observation
Boost observational skills with an inquiry-based lesson plan that takes scholars on a virtual field trip. With help from webcams, learners observe animals in a zoo or aquarium. Observations go into a journal and a discussion is held to...
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2nd Grade - Act. 27: How Animals Prepare for Winter
What do animals do during the winter? Second graders will discover that some animals migrate and other hibernate during the winter. Using "How and Why Animals Prepare for Winter," by Elaine Pascoe, they will discuss and create a drawing...
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First Mention Rule Worksheet
Learners choose the correct article to fill in the blank before a countable or uncountable noun in a cloze-reading passage. They then determine the rule for the first mention of plural and singular non-count and countable nouns, as well...
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Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
Young scholars discuss the differences between a storybook and an information book. Students use various materials found in nature to make a nature collage. Young scholars make a nature dictionary using pictures and their own definitions...
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Birds and Birdfeed
Fourth graders examine the basic survival needs of birds before examining a suet ball as an example of what birds eat. They conduct an experiment with pine cones, bird seed, vaseline, and peanut butter. By observing the birds, they...
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Chucky Chickadee's Bird and Breakfast: Sing in Please
Young scholars observe bird feeding and complete a tally and graphing activity for their observations. In this bird graphing lesson, students work in teams to observe bird feedings. Young scholars complete a bird reporting sheet and...
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Problem Solving: Make an Organized List
In this problem solving instructional activity, students solve word problems by making an organized list. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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How Animals Prepare for Winter
Second graders study which animal hibernate and which migrate. They observe the weather conditions related to each and complete the associated worksheets and web activity.
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Easy Bird Feeder
Young scholars create simple, painted, themed bird feeders out of everyday items, such as paper towel rolls and small paper plates
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Learning to Make Data Tables
Learners construct data tables using the results of previous experiments. In this graphing lesson, students plot data and interpret the results. Learners discuss how they organized their data.
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iWonder Lesson Plan: Winter Birds
Students report on the colors, calls, behaviors, and physical characteristics of different winter birds. In this winter birds lesson plan, students also make a bird feeder.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: What Seeds Do Birds Prefer to Eat?
In this project you'll build a bird feeding platform with four separate feeding areas. You'll be able to observe birds at close range, find out what birds inhabit your area, and learn about their seed-eating preferences. So get out your...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Birds
The Smithsonian National Zoological Park provides a detailed look at birds. Content includes a focus on the Zoo's bird house exhibit, as well as bird houses, flight cages, bird facts, bird information for kids, an FAQ section, a photo...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Zoom: Activities: Life Sciences: Bird Feeder
Build this easy bird feeder at home with simple household items and an empty milk carton.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Wildlife Journal Jr: Build a Bird Feeding Station
Learn how to build bird feeders to attract wild birds. Plan the feeder location, find out about various feeding levels, and discover how different types of feeders attract different bird species.
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United Poultry Concerns: Bird Feeders
Colored drawing of tree branch with three bird feeders.