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Bird Interdisciplinary Possibilities

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Students explore birds, their territory, breeding, and seasonal movement. They research and collect information on birds through writing letters to ornithologists, reading in books, comparing web sites, and observing pictures. Students explore statistics about birds. They draw pictures and create their own movies about birds. Additional cross-curricular activities are listed in the lesson plan.

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5th - 12th
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Science
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