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Curated OER

Flight for Survival - Avian Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create imaginary creature that has some of the adaptations birds have.
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Curated OER

Flying Bird Fact-Finds

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students investigate how to recognize, feed, and shelter backyard birds, design paper birds similar to one local species, and design and construct three-dimensional mobiles to display interesting facts and information they gather about...
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Unit Plan
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Amazing Birds

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
What's so amazing about birds? Find out just how amazing birds are with a physics of animal behavior unit created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Have learners explore and tap into their observational skills and notice how birds fly, what...
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PPT
Biology Junction

Birds

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Birds adapted to almost every climate on the planet, from the Arctic to the rain forests. A presentation focused on birds covers their similarities and differences. It starts with their evolution from reptiles, their many physical...
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Curated OER

Flying and Migration

For Teachers K
Students listen to a read aloud of an excerpt of Janet Eaton Givens, Just Two Wings, before reviewing what birds use to fly, and the meaning of migration. They use hot lists of websites to research the Internet for information about the...
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Curated OER

Flight Dreams: Birds Flew First

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students observe how bird flight and machine flight are similar. In this aerodynamics lesson, students observe how birds fly and the shapes of their wings, and investigate how observing birds helped develop the concept of machine flight....
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Curated OER

Birds and Mammals

For Teachers 6th
Providing a higher-level thinking experience, this presentation provides an in-depth and interesting review of mammals. The terms used in the presentation give students a chance to be exposed to scientific classifications. There is also...
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Curated OER

Bird Interdisciplinary Possibilities

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners explore birds, their territory, breeding, and seasonal movement. They research and collect information on birds through writing letters to ornithologists, reading in books, comparing web sites, and observing pictures. Students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

For the Birds Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this birds vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 02 listed birds to the appropriate sentences that describe each of them.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

For the Birds Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this birds worksheet, students read ten clues that pertain to birds and determine the answer from the word box. Students then use the answers to complete a crossword puzzle.
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Teach Engineering

Adapatations for Bird Flight - Inspiration for Aeronautical Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's a bird, it's a ... device made to mimic birds. The eighth installment of a nine-part module has pupils read various articles to learn about bird flight. They consider the implications for aeronautical engineering.
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PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Flight

For Parents 3rd Standards
A Reading Adventure pack focuses on the invention of flight. After reading a fiction and nonfiction book, scholars take their newfound knowledge to design a one-passenger flying device, experiment with different types of paper airplanes...
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Curated OER

Building a Bird's Nest

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students identify local birds and their habitats. For this wildlife lesson, students list various birds that live in their area and match the descriptions of the birds to the photos. Students build a diorama of a birds nest.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Birds and Mammals

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science activity, students create details given an imaginary story to reinforce the topics of mammals and birds. The second page has more puzzles for them to do.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

All About Birds

For Students 8th - 10th
In this birds worksheet, students answer 25 short answer questions about birds. They color and label the different parts of a bird and fill in the correct term given the definitions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Understanding the Four Forces of Flight

For Students 4th - 5th
In this four forces of flight worksheet, students read a 1 page article on flights, answer 5 questions with multiple choice answers, draw a line to connect the four forces to their definitions and answer 1 short answer scenario.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mankind's Fascination With Flight

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read various novels and articles about the contributions of the Wright Brothers. Individually, they are tested on their comprehension of the material and discuss. In groups, they research the role of the people in their life...
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Curated OER

Bernoulli's Principle and Winged Flight

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study Bernoulli's Principle and Winged Flight. In this biology lesson plan, 3rd graders to see how the decrease in air pressure which occurs when air is moving allows birds to fly.
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Curated OER

Feeding the Birds

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students build bird feeders. In this aviary lesson, students build different types of bird feeders. This web page includes information on which type of feeder attracts which birds and what food to use with the certain feeder type.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Birds in Flight

For Teachers 1st
First graders begin a KWL chart about birds and listen to books read aloud by the teacher before accessing Internet sites. They use a hotlist of websites to find information and use software to make a computer based movie.
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PPT
Curated OER

Flying Machines (ESL Lesson)

For Teachers 5th - 9th
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...hang glider? This ESL presentation is about vehicles that fly. From airplanes to rockets and blimps, the slides include vibrant illustrations that will help English learners identify common flying...
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Lesson Plan
Film English

Fear of Flying

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A bird that's afraid of flying? See what happens to this character when it's time to fly south. Over the course of the lesson, pupils discuss fears in general, share their fears, make predictions about the film, and view the film. The...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Penguins Around the World

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate penguins. In this Science activity, students compare and contrast penguins to flying birds. Young scholars use a Venn diagram to illustrate the differences and similarities of penguins and flying birds.
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Curated OER

Who Am I?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Birds and ducks are the stars of this colorful word search. In it, learners identify 16 different species of birds and ducks. There are colorful and accurate pictures of each of the birds. Pupils must match up the picture with...

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