South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Bird Adaptations
Fourth graders will engage in a project-based learning lesson to discover how beak adaptations affect what birds eat.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 10.18 Bird Diversity
Learn about some of the bird adaptations that help birds survive.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bird Food and Bird Beaks
There are almost as many types of bird beaks as there are types of food that birds like to eat. This collection of images shows a wide range of beaks and the types of foods handled by each.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bird Beak Gallery
This collection of images of ten different birds illustrates the diversity of bird beaks.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Looking at Bird Beaks
Use this activity as an introduction to adaptations. Students will view video clips of birds and formulate their own observations and explanations for the different types of bird beaks and how they are used.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Can You Predict a Bird's Lifestyle Based on Its Feet?
Animals have special features that allow them to adapt to conditions in certain environments. You might not be able to dive down 3281 feet to observe the deep sea anglerfish, but in this science fair project you can discover what the...
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Hinterland Who's Who: Nest Boxes for Birds
At least fifty different types of birds in Canada nest in cavities. This being said, these birds can adapt to nesting in nest boxes, which is a good thing since many of these birds? natural nesting sites are diminishing. Learn how to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Birds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] There is an amazingly wide variety of birds. Birds are vertebrates. Almost all have forelimbs modified as wings, but not all birds can fly. Learn more about birds in...
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Birds
This resource provides detailed information about birds, as well as several pictures.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Nhmu: Birds Will Be Birds
Analyze the physical characteristics of 12 different birds and consider how this enables them to survive in their individual habitats.
Other
Project Beak: Adaptations: Build a Bird
Build a bird by choosing specific structures to match the environment, then see how you did by calculating the survival rate.
Sea World Parks & Entertainment
Sea World: Flamingos: Adaptations for an Aquatic Environment
Sea World's provides users with this comprehensive site about flamingos. Contains information on adaptations for their aquatic environment.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Bird Bill Matching Game
Can you identify the purpose of different bird beaks? Read up about the different types of beaks and then you'll apply your knowledge by identifying the purpose of different shaped beaks.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Functional Feet: How Foot Structure Connects to Bird Survival
Students study and observe differences in the foot structure of various birds by studying pictures, and then observing the birds themselves. After observing birds in their natural habitat, students then relate the differences in foot...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Comparative Anatomy of Bird vs. Human Leg Bones
This activity is designed for students to compare and contrast the anatomy of bird and human leg bones. Students will kinesthetically model walking like a bird to note the differences in the foot bones.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Adaptations for Aeronautical Engineering
This activity first asks the students to study the patterns of bird flight and understand that four main forces affect the flight abilities of a bird. They will study the shape, feather structure, and resulting differences in the pattern...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Adaptations of Desert Birds and Mammals
The ways in which animals have adapted so as to survive in a desert environment are described in this article. Mechanisms that humans have to help them cool themselves in a desert are also explained. (Published: December 17, 2009)
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 4 Wetland Adaptation
Fourth graders will understand the impact of the wetland environment on the migration of birds.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Bird Beaks and Bills
Labeled illustrations demonstrating the diversity of bird mouth parts, each adapted for particular purposes.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Birds in Flight, What a Sight!
This lesson has been designed to show young scholars the unique structure that birds possess--feathers--and how they maneuver them in flight.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Birds of Colder Continents
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over birds in cold climates, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
abcteach
Abcteach: Birds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Come and check out this resource featuring printable materials on birds. This site includes poems, shape books, questions for reading comprehension and more.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Bird in a Cage
Learn about the receptor cells in your eye's by completing this activity! In this activity, observe how by staring at one color you will see another due to adaptation of the cones in your eye.
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: Movement in the Air
A site on how birds fly discusses their anatomy that allows them to fly. Also discusses the role that feathers play in flight. Also includes a section which discusses other insects that fly.
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