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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Great Pollinators

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the reproductive parts of a plant.  In this biology lesson, students identify and categorize several different plants they dissect in class.  Students record their information using a data chart.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Key To Classifying Animals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explorers of the environment construct a dichotomous key for a variety of organisms and design a key to classify Galapagos animals based on descriptions and images. The lesson includes a link to an animal gallery and the worksheet for...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Explorations Through Time

For Students 9th - 12th
In this earth history worksheet, students visit a website and complete 15 fill in the blank and 8 short answer questions based on what they read. Topics include biodiversity, animal kingdoms, evolution, fossils, and extinction.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Owls - Reading Comprehension

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this science reading comprehension learning exercise, learners read a selection that describes the characteristics and habits of owls. They answer 7 multiple choice questions based on the reading.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dancing Flamingos

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students, through the media of dance and drama, discover how an animal's behavior helps them to survive in the environment. They practice performing or mimicking how a flamingo's acts and positions itself when being observed. The...
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Looking at Bird Beaks

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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.
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PPT
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bird Food and Bird Beaks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bird Beak Gallery

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This collection of images of ten different birds illustrates the diversity of bird beaks.
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Interactive
Other

Project Beak: Adaptations: Build a Bird

For Students 3rd - 8th
Build a bird by choosing specific structures to match the environment, then see how you did by calculating the survival rate.
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Interactive
Other

Explore Learning: Rainfall and Bird Beaks

For Students 4th - 6th
Explore how environmental conditions affect the adaptation of birds in this simulation. The amount of annual precipitation on an island is controlled by you while you track changes in the thickness of bird beaks over a five-year period....
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Interactive
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Bird Bill Matching Game

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Bird Adaptations

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will engage in a project-based learning lesson to discover how beak adaptations affect what birds eat.
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Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about birds, as well as several pictures.
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Graphic
Merriam-Webster

Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Bird Beaks and Bills

For Students 9th - 10th
Labeled illustrations demonstrating the diversity of bird mouth parts, each adapted for particular purposes.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 10.18 Bird Diversity

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about some of the bird adaptations that help birds survive.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Compare Human Made Objects With Natural Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In small groups, students will experiment and observe the similarities and differences between human-made objects and nature. The students will compare the function and structure of hollow bones with drinking straws, bird beaks, tool...
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Interactive
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Biology: Galapagos Finches

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive animation illustrates how Charles Darwin used his study of finch beaks to explain evolution. A phylogenetic tree diagram shows how the birds' color and beak shape changed over generations.

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