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Fill The Bill

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify and describe five different types of beaks. Using that information, they explain how each of them is adapted to feed on different foods. In groups, they travel around the room to various stations in order to practice...
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Build a Hawaiian Bird

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders make a model of a bird.  In this animal adaptations lesson, 5th graders examine how birds adapt to their environment, using Hawaiian birds as an example. Students create their own bird using adaptation paper cut outs then...
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Adaptations of the Beak

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine the principles of adaptation using mouth structure of animals as an example. Students look specifically at the various shapes of beaks of birds and the bill of the platypus.
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A Busy Bird

For Students K Standards
Kindergartners read a short passage and answer questions based on what they read. The question set involves circling pictures, writing words, and drawing pictures.
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Bird Break Buffet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss what human traits might help a person be more successful. They discuss how all birds are of the same species but have different beak traits. Students comprehend that the birds that eat the most food will have a baby with...
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Bird Beak Buffet

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars complete an activity that allows them to better understand that birds traits are closely related to what they eat, where they live, etc.  In this bird trait lesson students complete an activity, create a data board and...
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Interactive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Sorting Finch Species

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't just tell your class about Darwin's finches ... show them! Sort some of science's most famous birds using an interactive lesson. Learners try their hand at classifying finches using song, sonogram, and beak appearance, as well as...
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Bird Beak Anatomy

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in an activity to determine which tool will work the best to gather food. They create analogies about how the experiment relates to birds. They brainstorm about which adaptation helps or hurts the survival of an...
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Battle of the Beaks

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore adaptive advantage, based on beak function, by simulating birds competing for various foods.
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Look Up - Birds

For Teachers K
Students investigate the concept of birds. They identify five different types of birds and name the characteristics that make them different than other living things. Students also name the different parts of the bird and how they are...
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Worksheet
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Many kinds of birds

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this some or all worksheet, learners fill in the blank with "some" or "all" to sentences that contain facts about bird characteristics. Students fill in the blank for 11 sentences.
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Birds Learning Cycle Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the various adaptations of birds and compare differences and similarities of different birds.
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Desert Discoveries

Bird and Feather Features

For Teachers 3rd
Ornithology is the study of birds, and young scientists do just that with an interesting science lesson. They identify the parts of a bird, realize that birds have different types of beaks, wings, and feet, and take a close look at bird...
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K5 Learning

Humming Birds

For Students 5th Standards
Seeing a hummingbird in the wild can be a magical experience. Learn more about these delicate members of the animal kingdom with a short reading passage, complete with four short-answer questions.
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The Birds and the Beaks

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners explore the adaptations that birds have.  In this adaptations lesson students view a video and create a concept map of birds and their adaptive traits.
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Clipbirds

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners attempt to pick up various objects with a wide variety of beaks, including scissors, spoons, etc.
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Feathered Feeders

For Teachers K - 9th
Students investigate variation in bird beaks and the interrelationships of form and function by classifying birds with similar beak shapes, inferring about the possible bird foods based on beak shapes, and locating and identifying...
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Birds

For Students 8th - 12th
For this birds worksheet, students review the characteristics of birds including their adaptations for flight. Students review the diversity of bird adaptations. This worksheet has 4 short answer, 7 true or false, 6 matching, and 3 fill...
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Organizer
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Birds Concept Mapping

For Students 6th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students complete a concept map about birds. They fill in 7 blanks with the correct terminology from the word list.
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Birds: The Best Beak

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the correlation between a bird beak shape and the uses of the beak.
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Amazing Bird Adaptions--Why Am I A Bird?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify and classify birds found in Illinois. Using the internet, they discover how birds have adapted over time and how the adaptations have increased their life span. They compare and contrast the various adaptations...
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Marine & Aquatic Habitats Activities - Estuaries Are for the Birds!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students recognize that birds act as indicators of pollution because of their sensitivity to environmental change, and role play the manner in which marine debris can be hazardous to waterfowl.
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Worksheet
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Birds in a Nest Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 8 words in a word bank that pertain to a bird family in a nest. Students find the words in a word search puzzle and color the picture on the page.
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Birds of Wisconsin

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...

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