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Bird Nests Internet Hunt
In this birds nests worksheet, students click on links to access sites and answer questions related to bird nests.
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Massive Migrations
Here is an exciting exploration of a fascinating topic for your emerging ecologists: bird migration! They begin by visiting the US Fish & Wildlife Service website to discover which Arctic birds come to their areas. They are assigned...
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Breeding Bird Atlas Activity
In this breeding birds worksheet, students read a passage about birds and the Breeding Birds Atlas, then answer a set of comprehension questions based on graphs, maps and pictures given. Questions have multiple components.
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Making Nests
Second graders explore the lives of birds by researching their natural habitats. For this nest building lesson, 2nd graders investigate the craft of making a bird nest and discuss their useful qualities for the animals. Students utilize...
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North American Birds of the Meadow Crossword Puzzle
In this North American birds worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle about the North American birds of the meadow. Students complete 22 blanks in the crossword puzzle.
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Birds of Wetlands Facts Table Activity
In this birds of wetlands worksheet, students create a table on the internet to insert facts of the birds in the wetlands. Students make a table for 9 birds.
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Bluebirds Nest Box Log
In this bluebirds nest instructional activity, students follow directions on how to make a blue bird nest and then answer the short answer questions about it. Students click on the links and answer the questions.
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Data Analysis: bird habitats in rice farms
Fifth graders make a graph and write an essay to interpret the data of birds that take advantage of habitats near rice farms. In this data lesson plan, 5th graders calculate the information given to them and interpret it in an essay form.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Perfect Nest
Students discover the meaning of tier two vocabulary words. In this vocabulary lesson, students read The Perfect Nest, listening for 3 pre-selected, tier two vocabulary words. Words are defined by the teacher and students practice...
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Activity: Bird Beak Buffet
Middle schoolers study the functions of bird beaks. For this animal evolution lesson, students compare and contrast different types of bird beaks focusing on how the beaks are adapted to the foods the birds eat. Middle schoolers record...
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Ecology: Why Are Rice Fields Suitable Habitats for Birds?
Fifth graders discover the uses for rice by reading about the habitats of certain birds. In this agriculture lesson plan, 5th graders research birds from the Gulf Coast and California and their reasons for living in rice fields....
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For the Birds Word Search
In this birds worksheet, students explore different kinds of birds and their characteristics. Students complete a word search by finding ten words.
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These Maps are for the Birds
Students identify and study New York State Breeding Bird Atlas maps to learn where different bird species nest and how their distributions have changed over time. They also identify how maps serve as representations of a geographic...
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Osprey Journey
Students investigate the migration route of one bird, Osprey B4, using information gathered from satellites to track birds over a two-year period. They coimpare their graphs with maps of B4's migrations that have been plotted by...
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Invasion of the (Cactus) Booty Snatchers
Students, in groups of four,identify and analyze relationships among birds within a population, a community and an urban ecosystem. They fill out, while they're completing their experiments, a Populations of Birds Student Data Sheet.
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Birds in a Nest Word Search
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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Amazing Bird Adaptions--Why Am I A Bird?
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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Bird Bulletins
Students, in groups, create a survey to investigate how much their community knows about birds. They graph their findings using a bar graph. Using the data collected, they develop an advertising campaign to increase community awareness...
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Saving the Birds
Learn about the kindness and strength of Abraham Lincoln with a reading comprehension activity. After third and fourth graders read a short story about Lincoln saving a family of robins, they answer four questions about the plot and...
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Studying Birds in the Field
This is a well-designed science activity which helps students learn the behavior of different species of birds. Working with partners and in small team, students learn to scientifically observe birds.
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Birds of Wisconsin
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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Graph: Number of Laysan Albatross Nests and Chicks at Kilauea Point
In this bar graph worksheet, students solve and complete 2 problems related to reading a bar graph. First, they use the data table found at the bottom of the sheet to complete the bar graph which illustrates the number of nests and...
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Bird Word Search
In this word search worksheet, students search for a list of eight words as they relate to the topic of birds. Words can be found backward, forward, up, down, and diagonally.
Classroom Kit
Homes
Where do birds? What about frogs? Learn about animal habitats with a series of worksheets. Each page is divided into quarters and shows an animal, a sentence about where the animal lives, and a blank space to draw their homes.