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RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT BIRDS
- Get to Know Birds Audubon.com
- Quick Introduction – Ducksters
- Bird Printouts
- Birds for Kids
- National Geographic Kids
- What is a Bird?
Crafts
- Egg Carton Animals
- Coloring Book
- Dove of peace hanging
- Caged Bird
- Make a dinosaur egg
- Egg shell tulips
- Humpty Dumpty puppets
- Introduce Birds
- Teaching Bird ID Cornell Lab
Language Resources from enchantedlearning.com
- Animals on the Go PBSLearning
- Movement Oxford University of Natural History
- Animal Moves Scholastic
- Animals move worksheets for young learners Lanternfish ESL
- Videos
- Biology of a Feather ASU.edu
- Biologia de las Plumas ASU.edu
- Feather Biology ASU.edu
- Videos
- Overview of Animal Coverings – miacademy.com – maybe for primary grades?
- What Animals Wear – AnimalWonders Montana introduces a variety of animals, explains their coverings, and shows how they shed their coverings
- bird feet fernbank.edu
- bird feet birdsandblooms.com
- Types of Bird Feet – Robinson Library
- Build a Bird The Cornell Lab
- Britannica
- Pine cone bird feeder– Enchanted Learning
- Identifying Nests and Eggs – Nestwatch
- Build a Bird House Howstuffworks
- What is a Wetland? The Wetlands Initiative
- Wetlands are Wonderlands Investigation Miami University
- Build a Birdhouse TeachEngineering
- Build a Blue Bird House TeachEngineering
- Owls Abound art activity Crayola.com
- Above and Below the Pond art activity Crayola.com
Biology Bits – Arizona State University
Habitat information from MBGnet
- Desert Birds: Cactus Wren, Desert Lark, Vulture
- Forest Birds: Cardinal, Goshawk, Turkey, Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
- Wetland Birds: American Bittern, Boat-billed Heron, Black-winged Stilt, Common Snipe
- Shoreline Birds: Avocet, Crab Plover, Herring Gull, Magnificent Frigate bird, Snowy Sheathbill, White-colored Kingfisher
Habitat Information from UntamedScience.com
- Desert
- Lakes and Ponds
- Rivers and Streams (not as much content here)
- Deciduous Forests
- Grasslands
- Tropical Rainforests
- Wetlands
Teacher Background
- Reproduction in Birds
- Eggs
- What do we call animal babies?
- Life Cycle – Geeks for Geeks
- Eggs – UC Berkeley
- What do we call animal babies? – Enchanted Learning
Activities and Other Resources
- Chickscope – Pitt.edu
- Images of a bluebird life cycle – exploringnature.com
- Pine cone bird feeder – Enchanted Learning
- How to Make Bird Feeders howstuffworks
- What is a food chain? BBC Bitesize
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