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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bird's Eye View Map

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils explore seeing things from a bird's eye view. They listen to the book, "As the Crow Flies," view various objects from eye level views and standing on a chair, create a drawing of an object from both views, and read "Ben's Dream"...
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Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Birdseye View, Mapping

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand that maps show a "birds-eye view" of a place. Students stand above a teacher-made model and discuss how the objects in the model looked from above. Then students draw objects from a birds-eye view,...
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: The Truth About a Bird's Eye View

For Students 3rd - 8th
An article about the eyes and sight of different animals including flies, dogs, color vision, and night vision.
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Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Traveling Above, Looking Below

For Students 3rd - 5th
Try drawing something from a bird's-eye view and change your usual perspective of that object. Relates this drawing-from-above concept to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.