Teaching about Birds

2.1L.1 COMPARE AND CONTRAST CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIORS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THEY LIVE.

Lesson 10–Introduce Birds

• A: Bird printout

Lesson 11–Birds Have Feathers

• A: Birds of a Feather
• I: Hen Cam

Lesson 12–Bird Feet

• D, TB: bird feet

Lesson 13–Bird Sandwich

• A: Bird watching hints
• A: Bird scavenger hunt
• A: Paper Kites

From other web sites:

• A: Flightless birds
• SB: How birds fly
• D, SB: All about birds
• SB: Hear Bird Songs

Lesson 14–Habitat

• A: What’s In a Nest?
• A: Attracting Woodpeckers
• Engineering Connection: Build a Birdhouse
• Engineering Connection: Build a blue bird nest

Lesson 15–Life Cycle

• D, SB: Reproduction in Birds
• D, SB: Eggs
• TB: What do we call animal babies?

Lesson 16–Food Chain

• A: Pine cone bird feeder
• D, SB: Snowy Plover info

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A: Activities   TB: Teacher Background   SB: Student Background

V: Video   D: Diagram   L: Lots of Links

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Crafts

• Egg Carton Animals
• Coloring Book
• Dove of peace hanging
• Caged Bird
• Make a dinosaur egg
• Egg shell tulips
• Humpty Dumpty puppets

Language Arts Activities

• Bird jokes
• Bird word find puzzle
• Rhyme: Elizabeth
• Rhyme: Hickety, Pickety
• Rhyme: Humpty Dumpty

Math

• Bird extremes

Snacks

• Candy bird nests

Social Studies

• State birds

Very Capable Students

• Become a bird expert A-Z birds

TB, SB: Animal Planet Birds

Enchanted Learning: Birds

The Life of Birds