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Carson-Dellosa Publishing

Boho Birds Bulletin Board

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Maybe you're studying the life cycle of a bird, or maybe you're doing an author study in language arts. Whatever the case may be, use a set of bulletin board ideas any time of the year. Tailor the provided ideas to make them your...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Worksheet
Read Works

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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Lesson Plan
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Bird Beak Buffet

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students 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 graph the...
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Lesson Plan
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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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Lesson Plan
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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
Curated OER

Many kinds of birds

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this some or all worksheet, students 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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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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Birds

For Students 8th - 12th
In 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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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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Scholastic

Awesome Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Engaged learners discover how an owl beak works and how animals adapt to their environment. This task is part one of a three-part series. 
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Curated OER

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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Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Truffles

For Teachers 6th Standards
Knowing how to scale a recipe is an important skill. Young mathematicians determine the amount of ingredients they need to make a certain number of truffles when given a recipe. They determine a relationship between ingredients given a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Compare Human-made Objects with Natural Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine and observe how many human-made objects get their basic design from things in nature. They listen to the book "Nature Got There First," compare/contrast hollow bones with drinking straws, bird beaks and tool pliers, and...
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Lesson Plan
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Watch the Birdie

For Teachers K - 8th
Students complete a six-week unit on North American birds. They conduct research, develop fact sheets, create labeled bird drawings, write a dictionary of bird vocabulary words, create a Concentration game, and observe birds in their...
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The Drinking Bird

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students discover how the "drinking bird" functions. In this investigative lesson, students discover what makes the drinking bird drink by analyzing relative humidity, temperature, and barometric pressure.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Drinking Bird

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover how toys often illustrate fundamental physical principles. The toy drinking bird is an example. The challenge for you in the lab is to discover why the drinking bird functions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Worksheet 7. Nouns and Verbs (Birds)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this birds reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a passage about birds and respond to 8 multiple choice questions regarding the paragraph. Some questions have more than 1 correct answer.
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Lesson Plan
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Learning Bird Traits

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students draw and label a bird. In this bird traits lesson, students learn what traits make a bird different from other animals. Students are taught how to draw a bird and are expected to label the various body parts they drew.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Listen and Draw

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and drawings. First, they listen to an adaptation of William Clark's description of the sage grouse. They form mental images that they translate into...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Classification of Organisms

For Students 5th - 10th
In this classification activity, students solve 3 classification riddles, complete 6 true and false questions, complete 4 sequences, and solve a riddle about the classification of an animal.
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Lesson Plan
Polar Trec

Swan Savvy

For Teachers K - 12th
Just like so many other birds, swans migrate during the cold winter months. Your class can gain a better understanding of migration and bird life as they act out some of the activities common to the tundra swan. They make a nest, sit on...
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American Museum of Natural History

Beyond T. Rex

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Some dinosaurs get all the attention. Pupils use an interactive resource to study some of the lesser-known dinosaur species. Organizing the information in a cladogram allows learners to make connections among the species.