Bird+Unit


 * 1st Grade Unit: Birds All Around **
 * Teachers: Brandenstein, Fewell, Ingram, May; Tremont Elementary **
 * SLMS: Claudia Fett **
 * Integration Coach: Jeanne Beaver **


 * __Big Idea/Enduring Understanding__ : What do you want students to remember in 10 years? **
 * Birds interact with each other, other species and with the environment.
 * Scientists have specific ways of investigating the world:
 * careful and disciplined observations to classify, ask questions, make predictions, report on findings and explain with reasons
 * looking for patterns, supports with evidence, communicating with an audience
 * __Essential Question(s):__ **
 * What role do birds have in a healthy environment? **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Product/Performance Task__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Students will create to demonstrate their understanding (flexible application of knowledge and skills): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research flip book
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Non-fiction question and answer book
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Individual books about specific birds
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Class book modeled after Hatch
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird life-sized mobile with fact cards (see Claudia’s owl example) in collaboration with art teachers
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital nonfiction Keynote or PPT presentation of interesting facts about each bird (1 slide per student/1 presentation per class)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Diorama with bird nest and egg


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Real world purpose/audience:__ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parents (Open House 7:45-8:15 a.m.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tremont community
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5th grade buddies


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Real world models__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (e.g. mentor texts, etc.): **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">field trips (Indian Village, OSU BioDiversity Center)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad- My Bird World (science)


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who am I? Feathered


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Videos:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Search Discovery Streaming
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brain Pop Jr.- food chain and migration videos
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Baby Bird Hatching: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://wimp.com/babybird__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bald Eagle building a nest: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://birdcinema.comview_video.php__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://birdcinema.com__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.babybird.id__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://fsc.fernbank.edu/birds.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ***Really good!***
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://birding.about.com/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cases:


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Beaks (a K-2 Animals lesson plan)-took information from


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson on the Lake: Activity Bird Beak Buffet--took information from


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">List of possible texts students will read to help them uncover topic: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who am I? Feathered
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds-Adele Richardson
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Olivia’s Birds Saving the Gulf-Olivia Bouler-j598 BOU
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick, Quiet, and Feathered, What Am I? Moira Betterfield and Wayne Ford-j598.97BUT
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What If There Were No Bees? Suzanne Slade j577.4SLA
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have You Seen Birds? JoAnne Oppenheim fiction-E Op 5-easy books
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guess who Swoops? Sharon Gordon- j598.9 GOR
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hatch! Roxie Munro- j598 MUN
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Feathers for Lunch- Lois Ehlert- jp EH
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is a Bird? Lola Schaefer- j598 SCH
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds use Their beaks- Elaine Pascoe- j598 PA
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Nest Full of Eggs- Priscilla Belz Jenkins (pictures with each stage, describes different eggs)- j598.8 JE
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest -Where Birds Begin- Irene Kelly- j598KEL
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Nests- Helen Frost – j598.1564 FRO
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds and Their Nests- Linda Tagliaferro- j598 TA
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Are You a Butterfly? Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stellaluna – Janell Cannon comparisons between lifestyles of birds and bats. Jp CA
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Mountain Who Loved a Bird- Alice McLerran – E McL
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds Build Nests- Elaine Pascoe- j598.2 PAS
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Bird’s Life- Ellen Lawrence- j598.156 LAW
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds Nests and Eggs- Mel Boring- j598.B64
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Place for Birds- Melissa Stewart- j598 STE
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if There Were No Grey Wolves?- Suzanne Slade- j 577.3097 SLA
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is a Bird?- Ron Hirschi- E H 61 Easy Books
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird- David Burnie- j598 BUR
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Magic School Bus; Flies from the Nest- Joanna Cole- Easy Readers, JE 20 COL
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Avian Architecture- Peter Goodfellow- 598.1564 GOO


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guiding Questions for Lesson Planning: <span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(also see activity plan below) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What does a bird need to survive? (basic needs)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What makes a bird a bird?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do birds impact their environment?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do ornithologists do and why are they important?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I Can Statements for Content & Skills

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I can... || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summative Assessments <span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(see activity plan below for formative assessments) || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Mobile <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Mobile || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Mobile || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flip Book || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group Discussion ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...identify and describe the physical characteristics that help a bird survive. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird mobile ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...describe the unique needs of birds || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flip book ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...describe how the needs of birds differ from each other and from other animals || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Venn Diagram
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...gather information about a topic and identify main ideas || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flip Book
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...communicate information orally and visually || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Presentation
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...recognize that seasonal changes can influence the health, survival or activities of birds || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Mobile
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">...explain what would happen if birds were taken away from our world || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Life cycle chart

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Science__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Basic Needs of Living Things <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This topic focuses on the physical needs of living things in Ohio. Energy from the sun or food, nutrients, water, shelter and air are some of the physical needs of living things. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Living things survive only in environments that meet their needs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resources are necessary to meet the needs of an individual and populations of individuals. Living things interact with their physical environments as they meet those needs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effects of seasonal changes within the local environment directly impact the availability of resources. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Standards Addressed__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__21st Century Skills__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Communicator__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator A__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Conveys information, feelings, and ideas using oral, written, and nonverbal skills.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Academic Content Standards and 21C Skills Addressed: ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Standards addressed__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator B__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Comprehends meaning by reading, viewing, and listening.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator D__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Creates message and presentation style to engage audience.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator E__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Employs technology to organize and convey information.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Complex Thinker__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator A:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Identifies and defines authentic problems and essential questions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator B__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Collects, assess, and analyzes relevant information.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator C__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Explores and develops solutions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Self Directed Individual__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator A__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Sets and manages goals.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator B__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Maintains focus and perseveres.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator C__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Takes initiative for self-instruction, solving problems, and seeking appropriate help.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator D__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Monitors progress towards goal(s) and self-corrects.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Indicator E__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Is productive and accountable. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Standards addressed__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Reading__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.1] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.2] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.3] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.4] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Literacy.R115 Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.6] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Literacy.R117 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.8] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.9] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.RI.1.10] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Standards addressed__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Writing__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.W.1.2] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.W.1.5] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.W.1.6] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.W.1.7] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.W.1.8] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.L.1.1] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.2] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Standards addressed__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Listening/Speaking__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.SL.1.1] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.SL.1.2] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.SL.1.3] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Literacy.SL.1.4__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.SL.1.5] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #771705; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Literacy.SL.1.6] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d2d2c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation. ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take the class bird-watching around the school grounds. Discuss their observations. Have students repeat this in their own neighborhood and share their observations with the class. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Watch Discovery Streaming <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make charts comparing humans (shelter, living space, food, water, air) Birds- (Shelter, living space food, water, air) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion Questions: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why do YOU eat? Why do you think animals need to eat? What kinds of foods do you eat? What kinds of thinkgs do animals eat? How do you get your food? How do birds get their food? What kind of things do you think a bird eats? What do you notice about the bird that helps it live in this place? What else do you notice about the bird? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Divide up and add illustrations to show differences <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete their booklet for their birds basic needs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sort bird seed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds have four basic requirements <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ food (seed, berries, insects, fish, invertebrates, rodents, and fruit) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Shelter (trees, grass, shrubs and snags) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Water (streams, lakes, mud flats, bird baths, and wetlands) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Space (larger for hawks and owls, smaller for sparrows and finches) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Record what students tell you about what they think birds need to live or survive. Group items into categories, hopefully they will group things birds eat together and places where birds might find shelter or nest, etc. Have students give reasons why they feel things need to be moved or removed from a list. . Ask what the title for each group might be, see if you can combine any groups, try to guide so that the final grouping ends up showing the 4 basic requirements. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Feathers, warm blooded, beak, feet, hollow bones <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What kind of beak does your bird have? Draw, sort, write information to assist:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Activity Plan: ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Invite a speaker from the local Audubon Society to make a presentation to the class.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__What does a bird need to survive? (basic needs)__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__What makes a bird a bird?__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A bird's beak is basically a lightweight, bony elongation of its skull. The beak is covered with skin that produces keratin, the same material found in human fingernails and hair. On most birds, the keratin condenses and dries, forming the beak's hard, glossy, outer covering. The tip and cutting edges of the beak are constantly renewed as they wear away, just as human nails are. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird beaks are multi-functional tools. Birds use them to weave nests, defend their territory, attack competitors, groom feathers, communicate, and most significantly, to gather or capture food. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the years, a wide assortment of bird beaks has evolved. Though many birds have straight beaks that are adapted to general feeding, some birds' beaks are examples of unique adaptations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unusual Bird Beaks and Their Uses: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Eagles and other raptors have strong, hooked beaks for tearing fish. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Anhingas and herons have dagger-like bills for spearing and grasping fish and frogs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Pelicans have pouched beaks, used as nets for scooping up fish. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Hummingbirds' beaks protect their long tubular tongues, with which the birds extract nectar from flowers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Swallows and whippoorwills use their wide, gaping beaked mouths to catch flying insects in mid-air. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Cardinals and grosbeaks have short, cone-shaped beaks for cracking open seeds. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Snipes have long beaks for probing in mud and water to find worms and other small animals. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Woodpeckers have chisel-like beaks for searching under tree bark to find insects. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Yellowbellied sapsuckers have drill-like beaks for boring into trees to feed on sap and the insects attracted to it.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do different animals have that help them live? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Animals have developed adaptations that allow them to live and thrive in certain environments. An adaptation is any physical or behavioral feature that allows an organism to survive in its environment. This can take many different forms. Some animals have camouflage that allows them to blend in with their environment so they can hide from predators. Giraffes have long necks that allow them to reach leaves at the tops of trees. Polar bears have thick fur that allow them to live in very cold climates. While all birds have beaks, they are shaped differently. A bird's beak is multi-functional. It serves to gather food, fight off predators, build nests, communicate, etc. The shape of a bird beak is an indication of the type of food it eats. Eagles and other raptors, for example, have a sharp hook that helps it tear apart the flesh of animals. Hummingbirds have long beaks that allows it to gather nectar from deep inside a flower. Pelicans have pouched beaks that allow them to scoop up fish from the water. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how students pictures of birds with beaks of different shapes. Pictures of various birds can be found at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212189; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://birds.ecoport.org/Identification/EBbeaks.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Ask the class to respond to the following questions in their science journals: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• What do bird beaks do? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• What is the same about all of the beaks? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• What is different about the beaks? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Why are the beaks shaped differently? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Did some "beaks" pick up certain types of food better than other "beaks"? Why do you think this is the case? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Did some "beaks" NOT do a very good job in picking up certain types of foods? Why do you think this is the case? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Was one "beak" type successful with more than one food item? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• How does a bird's beak help it live where it does? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• What other types of things do animals have or do that allow them to live where they do? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Facilitate a class discussion around students' answers to the above questions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• There are two goals for this discussion. First, it should facilitate students' understanding of how a bird's beak helps it live in its environment. Second, it should facilitate students' understanding that different animals have or do things that allow them to live where they do. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• A bird's beak allows it to pick up and eat certain types of food. Some beaks are well suited for specific food types. For example, eagles have sharp, hooked beaks to tear the flesh of animals. Hummingbirds have long, thin beaks to suck the nectar from flowers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other beaks are well suited for a variety of food types. For example, robins have beaks that jut out from their heads slightly and are <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">uniform on the top and bottom. This makes them able to eat a variety of foods including fruits, berries, worms, and caterpillars. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Background: Just like feet, bird beaks give clues about a bird's food, habitat, and behavior. Beaks can be used for swallowing, catching prey, tearing flesh, or grooming feathers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Materials: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #158a00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Beaks to Eats worksheet__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How to: Discuss the different functions bird's beaks can serve. Discuss different bird foods and the type of beak that is adapted for each type of food. Pass out the worksheet. Have the students match the food type with beak that is designed to eat it.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What kind of feet does your bird have? Draw, sort, write <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds have many different shapes and sizes to their feet. Like the shape of the bill, the anatomy of birds' feet tells us much about the ecology of different species of birds. Below are several examples of birds feet and what each one can tell us about the group of birds who possess them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SONG BIRDS or PERCHING BIRDS (warblers, thrushes, wrens, etc.) have independent, flexible toes, with one pointing backwards, ideal for grasping perches. Why don't perching birds fall out of trees when they sleep? When perching birds sit, a tendon on the backside of the ankle automatically flexes locking their toes around the branch. With feet locked, sleeping birds don't fall. As the bird stands up its feet release. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WOODPECKERS have two toes pointing forwards and two backwards; for climbing up, down, and sideways on tree trunks. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WATER BIRDS such as ducks have webbing between their toes for swimming. GULLS also have feet similar to these so they don't sink while walking in the soft sand or mud near the water's edge. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WADING BIRDS. The long toes of herons, which spreads the bird's weight over a large surface area, facilitates walking on soft surfaces near the water's edge (where wading birds like to eat). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">RAPTORS such as hawks, eagles, and owls use large claws (called talons) to capture, kill, and carry prey with their feet. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pheasants and chickens use their strong feet to scratch the dirt and leaf litter to uncover seeds and insects. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Strong-legged flightless birds, like the cassowary, protect themselves by kicking with their powerful feet and sharp claws. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://fsc.fernbank.edu/Birding/bird_feet.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Background: Just like beaks, feet can give clues about a bird's food, habitat, and behavior. Feet can be used for scratching, wading, grasping, perching or swimming. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Materials: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #158a00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Whose Foot Is This? worksheet__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, plain unlined paper, scissors, glue, and markers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How to: Discuss the different functions bird's feet can serve. Discuss different bird habitats and the type of feet that might be adapted for each lifestyle. Pass out the worksheet. Have the students cut out each bird and each foot on the worksheet and on a separate piece of paper, glue together the correct matches. The images can also be colored.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Where does your bird live? Map it <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What does your birds feathers look like? Draw, sort, write <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What do they eat? – fun fact- birds have enormous appetites. Most birds eat one-quarter to one-half of their body weight in food each day. Make a trial mix with dried fruit, sunflower seeds, nuts to eat like birds. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds Eye View- make a map using classroom stuff, then have the kids draw and label with a key- can use dominos, unifix cubes, craft sticks, pattern blocks, dice, etc. make your bedroom using the tools. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~Start as a whole group, discuss what birds eat and where they rest/home <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~ 3 centers- rotate about every 15 minutes, children will work cooperatively while making a bird feeder, observing a nest and practicing how birds eat. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Supplies needed: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pinecones Dixie cups bird nest Crisco/peanut butter tweezers, chopsticks, tongs journals yarn rubberbands pencils birdseed beads bird and nest pictures pie pan worms baggies paper plates seeds wax paper spoons table clothexit slip baggies with yarn and directions to take home
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Exploration with making a bird feeder, eating like a bird, observing a nest__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~Review what they know about beaks, nests and what birds eat. Break into groups, each student will rotate through all 3 centers

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Feeders- students will take a pinecone cover it with peanut butter or Crisco, roll it in the bird seed and use a piece of yarn to make a hanger. When it is complete they will place the feeder in a baggie to take home.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird Nest observation- Students will observe a real bird nest and answer questions in their bird nest journal.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beak Pick-Up- students will use different tools that resemble beaks to try to pick up objects of all sizes, widths and textures to represent food and itmes they may use to build a nest. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All animals are adapted to their environment in unique ways. A very important adaptation for food gathering in birds is the size and shape of the beak. In this activity, we will focus on different types of bird beaks and discover how each type of beak functions in collecting specific types of food. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students, using everyday objects that model different bird beaks, will try to gather the food and place it in their "stomachs". A class discussion on specialization of each beak type should follow. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Suggested Food Resources: uncooked shell macaroni, goldfish crackers, M&M® candies, gummy worms, chocolate sprinkles, peanuts, sunflower seeds, raisins, mini-marshmallows, cereals (you get the idea!) For an interesting ending, try individual cups of pudding for each student! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Beaks (utensils): one set per group clothespin, toothpick, straw, spoon, small plastic scoop, tweezers/small scissors <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other Materials: paper plate for feeding dish (1 per group); small cup for stomach (1 per student), whistle/bell to signal change of feeding <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extensions: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Have students predict which type of beak will be successful in collecting each food type. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Ask students to compare each of the food items to things that birds really eat, like snails, grubs, worms, seeds, and other things. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Give each student a small brown bag in which to store the food collected. If you use all edible items, students may eat them later as a reward snack. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Repeat the food-gathering activity with some types of foods floating in a plastic container of water. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Have the students sort the food they collected into small piles and construct a data table to record how much of each food they collected per beak type. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Using the class data, construct a bar graph, with food types along the horizontal axis and beak types along the vertical axis. Discuss the results with the class. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Discuss with the class the differences between a bird specialist (one that eats only a certain type of food) and a bird generalist (one that eats a variety of foods). Relate these ideas to habitat destruction, competition, and ecological niches.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each student will be given a baggie at the end to take home which will contain yarn to place out in their yard. They can observe a bird taking it and using it in their nest. Look for it; can you see your yarn in a nest?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Exit slip, journal at the bottom of the Unit Planner, bird beak explanation || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nesting behavior- where does it nest, every year new?. Etc… <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Homework- gather material, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-The Mountain Who Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran, illustrated Eric Carle -Recycled materials to make bird houses (Options include): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*small boxes or juice/milk cartons <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*sticks <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*string <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*masking or duct tape <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*markers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*stickers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*scissors <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Directions can be found at the following web sites: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/feature/famf87project/famf87project06.html__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/earthday/birds/house.htm__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.ehow.com/how_4882487_build-birdhouse-kids.html <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Opening Activity: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Ask students if they have ever heard the word habitat. Define the word for the students. (Habitat: The natural environment of an organism or a place where a person or animal is usually found. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/habitat) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Explain that habitats exist for all creatures and the habitat needs to have food, water, shelter, etc. in order for a person or animal to reside in the habitat. Ask students to describe their own habitat, or their home. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Introduce the story The Mountain Who Loved a Bird (showing the cover of the book) and tell the students that they will be learning about the habitat that a bird needs in order to be happy and healthy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson Body: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Read the book, The Mountain Who Loved a Bird, aloud. While reading ask students questions about the mountain and why it is not a good habitat for the bird at the beginning of the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Examples: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1)What is the mountain missing in order for it to be a good habitat for the bird? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) What happens every time the bird visits the mountain? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) How did the mountain’s tears help to create a good bird habitat? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4) Do you think birds do help to plant seeds? (Describe how they can carry seeds and twigs from location to location.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5) Point out some of the things at the end of the book that made the mountain a good habitat for birds. (Show last few pages of the book while students find things a bird needs in a good habitat.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Ask students if they ever see birds their own backyards? Remind them that the birds need a safe and comfortable home, space to fly, food, and water in order to survive. Tell them that they can make their yard a friendly bird habitat by creating a bird house. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Model the steps in creating a bird house. (These will vary depending on the specific bird house instructions you choose.) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Pass out materials and work with students to create and decorate their bird house. You may wish to have the holes pre-cut or perforated in the boxes or cartons. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Closure: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Upon completion of the bird houses, remind students that all animals need a good habitat. Ask students to recall what items need to be available for an animal to have a comfortable habitat? (Shelter, food, water, safety, etc.) You may wish to show pictures of bird baths, plants, nests, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Pass out and review instructions for hanging the bird house at home, referencing the fact that the house needs to be in a safe place. You may wish to use the instructions found at http://www.multiscope.com/hotspot/bhcare.htm. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Ask students to watch their bird house at home to see if any birds take up residence. Remind them that they should practice the three L’s - look, listen, and leave them alone. Ask students to report any activity to the class. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Extension: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Create a bird feeder to help create an even better habitat for neighborhood birds. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=1746 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Provide families with information about the HSUS Urban Wildlife Sanctuary program. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/wildlife_and_habitat_protection_ programs/urban_wildlife_sanctuary_program.html <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Ask students to learn about the habitats of other animals. A classroom bulletin board can be created showing various animals and their habitats. You may wish to use the information and coloring sheets found in the Sharing Our World with Wildlife Spanish/English coloring book. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Book What If Bee’s Went Missing? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Benefit of birds- effect on the planet- pollinate plants, eat insects, pets, farm rodents, bird watchers (give us information about human needs), if a bird is disappearing it means something is wrong with the environment, provide a food source <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Oil Spill Activity__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do oil spills affect birds- use feathers, dip in oil, corn syrup,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Build a bird nest__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__How do birds impact their environment?__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Understanding bird conservation means understanding <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__ecology__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Wild birds are an integral part of the ecosystem and serve many important purposes, including: Insect and rodent population control <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Distribution of seeds that leads to forest conservation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Food sources for bird predators <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By studying and conserving birds, we can better understand the relationships between all living things on our planet and how the interactions of those relationships can affect humans directly. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BioDiversity <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Birds are one of the most populous life forms on the planet, and that biodiversity leads to a richness of life and beauty. The incredible numbers of bird species demonstrate amazing evolutionary adaptations, and by learning how birds are able to adapt throughout the world we can begin to adapt our own behaviors to live in our world, rather than to force our world into an artificial and unsustainable mold. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bird conservation can also highlight the diversity of different habitats. All birds cannot live in the same habitats, and understanding the needs and requirements of different species can lead us to have more compassionate tolerance for different peoples and cultures.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Appreciation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the simplest pleasures we get from bird and wildlife conservation is a genuine appreciation for our natural world. By participating in different programs and working to save unique species and habitats, we come into close contact with different birds and can discover their unique personalities and quirks. Even the common birds in our backyard can teach us appreciation of natural diversity as we learn that some <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__pine siskins__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> are more aggressive than others or that <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__common ravens__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> can work through problems with keen intelligence. By recognizing birds as unique and individual creatures, we can better understand the need for appropriate conservation efforts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Awareness <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participating in one type of conservation program inevitably leads to a heightened awareness of other environmental and conservation issues. Birders interested in preserving one species of shore bird, for example, may discover that the reason the bird population is declining is due to contaminated water. That awareness of local pollution can lead to efforts for better water conservation that may in turn impact local beaches or drinking water. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conscientious birders should be aware of a range of environmental issues, including: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Pollution__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Habitat destruction <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Pesticide effects <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Endangered species__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each of these issues is interconnected and can impact birds in often unexpected ways. Large numbers of feral cats resulting from home foreclosures or animal shelter overcrowding, for example, can have an impact on local bird populations because of a greater number of predators. Birders who are aware of these and similar issues can take action to promote responsible bird conservation.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Education <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Observing and conserving birds can teach us much more than the details of individual bird species. By observing birds in flight, aeronautical engineers can design more efficient airplanes. Climatologists who study birds’ migration patterns can gain a better understanding of seasonal climate changes. Psychologists familiar with birds’ courtship rituals and community interactions can better understand complex group dynamics. By conserving birds and protecting their habitats, we can continue to gain insights from our avian friends. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How you can help <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are easy steps that any birder can take to promote bird conservation locally, nationally and globally. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Practice Good Ethics: By <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__being an ethical birder__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, you promote the viability of the hobby and ensure that others will be able to enjoy it and develop their own awareness of the importance of bird conservation. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Join Conservation Organizations: There are dozens of bird and wildlife conservation and protection organizations that are supported by knowledgeable members. These organizations are often responsible for bird research, rehabilitation and other critical conservation initiatives. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Participate in Conservation Programs: You don’t have to be a member of a formal organization to support bird conservation. Projects such as the Great Backyard Bird Count rely on amateur observations for large scale studies, and smaller programs such as <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__adopting wild birds__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> or donating to local <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__aviaries__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> can be helpful. Other environmental conservation programs, such as municipal recycling programs, also have indirect positive impacts on bird conservation. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Be Aware of Issues: Knowledgeable birders can have the strongest, most effective impact on conservation efforts. Stay informed about your local wildlife issues and other bird-related information, such as wetland development projects, land management issues or pollution cleanup initiatives. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share Birding With Others: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e4fc3; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Sharing your love of birding__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is one of the best ways to spread awareness about bird conservation. As more people join this popular hobby, the voice of concerned birders will grow to more than just a tweet and more conservation issues will be recognized and acted upon. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Food Chain-__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BrainPopJr || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Build to look like your birds habitat **Find stuff at home and bring in || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Classify birds <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identifying birds stations and activities <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conservation and bird ethics <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Educated action- create bird feeders for garden to create a healthy environment <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Word play with -ology || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each student draws their egg, give a “riddle” or hints as to what the bird is, then flip it up to see a picture of the bird <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Individual books like Guess who Swoops? And Quick, Quiet and Feathered- make sure to have paper prepared || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Accomodations/ Modifications to provide at the first sign of struggle <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Small group direct instruction, extension activities for repeated practice/exposure <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Direct 1:1 instruction ideas, materials, support staff, parent volunteers, etc… ||
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__What do ornithologists do and why is it important?__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Class book like Hatch!__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Develop a student magazine on the class discoveries about bird adaptations. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">__What to do when students aren’t learning it?__