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All About Birds

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students study different kinds of birds, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Bird Watching 101

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the basics of bird watching, finding and interpreting bird clues and attracting birds to a particular location or habitat. They go on a birding hike after a lecture on what to look and listen for in the woods.
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Signs of Spring

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners identify the first signs of Spring. They track birds and butterflies on their journey North.
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Resource Pack: Quail Island Banks Peninsula

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners look at birds that no long exist on Quail Island, those that currently are there, and ones that may be reintroduced. In this birds lesson plan, students put the birds into categories.
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Thanksgiving: Bird Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the evolution of birds. In this biology lesson plan, students research articles that discuss evidence about the ancestry of birds. They discuss their findings with the group and draw a journal magazine cover highlighting...
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Identifying plants, animals, insects, reptiles, and birds on the prairie

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Pupils identify all of the plant an animal life on the prairie.  In this plant identification lesson students divide into groups and draw sketches of things they saw on the prairie. 
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Bird Beak Buffet

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students complete an activity that allows them to better understand that birds traits are closely related to what they eat, where they live, etc.  In this bird trait instructional activity students complete an activity, create a data...
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How Does the Rice Farmer Help Birds When They Fly South in the Winter Time?

For Teachers K
Students draw a picture of a bird in a rice field. In this social studies lesson, students then fold a piece of paper so that there are 4 spaces. Students then draw one thing in each square that birds get from the rice field.
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Compare and Contrast - City Pigeons and City Parrots

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students watch videos about city birds and complete compare and contrast activities to decipher the types of birds. In this bird study lesson, students view videos about city pigeons and parrots. Students then complete a t-chart activity...
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This is for the Birds!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete activities to investigate wild birds. In this bird study lesson, students make a wild bird feeder to examine the proper ways to care for wild birds. Students explore organizations in their community that help wild birds...
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Bird Research: Your First Investigation

For Students 4th - 5th
In this bird research learning exercise, students keep a notebook and record their observations every day for a week about the birds they see with discussion questions at the end of the week.
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Exploring the Uses of Beaks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the uses of bird beaks in the wild by participating in experiment stations. In this bird adaptation lesson, students work in groups and complete experiment stations that represent different types of bird beaks. Students...
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Classifying Critters

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
In this classification worksheet, students describe the characteristics of the 5 groups of vertebrates and then complete 2 short answer questions.
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Animal Classification

For Students 6th - 10th
In this animals worksheet, students match the words in the first column to the statement that best matches. The terms are associated with the different groups of animals. Students must match 17 terms.
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Animal Classes-Mammal Birds Fish Reptiles Amphibian

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners learn about the characteristics of each animal classification. In this animal classification lesson students will first learn the characteristics of each classification. Then, they will find animals from given materials and...
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Birds (2)

For Students K - 3rd
In this birds worksheet, students locate and circle/highlight the 31 different types of birds listed at the bottom of the worksheet in a word search puzzle.
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Birds Worksheet - Practice Counting

For Students Pre-K - K
In this bird math worksheet, students count the number of cardinals and circle the correct number that correlates to their counting.
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Birds Handwriting Worksheet

For Students 1st
In this tracing birds instructional activity, 1st graders enhance their printing skills by tracing the bird words of Eagle, Cardinal, Parrot, and Owl.
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Birds Matching Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this classifying birds worksheet, students draw a line from each bird name on the left to the matching picture of the bird on the right.
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Counting Worksheet - Birds

For Students K - 1st
For this bird counting worksheet, students read the specific directions listed in each box of birds. Students then circle the number of birds listed in that specific box.
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Ridge Wood - Birds

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this categorizing worksheet, students study the pictures of the birds and their names. The objective is to enhance students' knowledge of the bird species.
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Animal Classification

For Students K - 2nd
In this animal classification worksheet, students will complete a graphic organizer by writing in the different animal groups: birds, mammals, reptiles, birds, and amphibians.
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Barn Owl

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this barn owl worksheet, students read four paragraphs of information about barn owls, and study a photograph. There are no questions here.
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Which Bird Is Different?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this visual discrimination instructional activity, students study 5 rows of similar bird pictures. In each row, students circle that picture that is different.