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Bird Songs

Lesson Plan #85

Teacher: Miss Katherine Victoria VanAnderland, original copy

Date: 07/05/2020

Overview & Purpose

What's so amazing about birds? Find out just how amazing birds are with a physics of animal behavior unit created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Have learners explore and tap into their observational skills and notice how birds fly, what they eat, the sounds they make, where they live, and more.

Education Standards

1. Research Skills

2. Listening Skills

3. Comprehension Skills

Objectives

1. Hang a bird feeder outside your window so class members can constantly observe bird activity

2. Copy the 18-page student packet, and have each learner glue the sheets in their science journals

3. https://www.birds.cornell.edu/k12/book-activities-2/

4. https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/media-library/

Materials Needed

1. https://www.birds.cornell.edu/k12/science-theme/

2. https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/media-library/

3. https://www.birds.cornell.edu/k12/get-started/

Verification

Steps to check for student understanding

1. Listen to all the bird songs

2. Comes with audio and video clips intended to accompany each lesson

3. A very thorough and robust unit covering a variety of life and physical science topics

Activity

Describe activity that will reinforce the lesson

Go Through the major websites and take a walk through all the things to do with birds.

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/95627/K-12%20Education/eBird%20Explorers%20K-2.pdf?__hstc=75100365.c6a2e517a2076da503c3d6d1aa0622fc.1593966094604.1593966094604.1593966094604.1&__hssc=75100365.1.1593966094604&__hsfp=611629719