Bird Behavior
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Thinking/Science Routines
Don’t forget to remind and reinforce students to use science routines and thinking tools, building and growing their scientific thinking toolkits all year.
Continue to remind and reinforce science routines and thinking tools, building and growing students’ scientific thinking toolkits, developing observation skills (I notice...), curiosity (I wonder...), making connections (it reminds me of...), as well as continuing to share information and ideas, including discussion skills, recording data, coming up with possible explanations from evidence, and finding ways to test their ideas.
In this lesson, you can use discussion between activities as a way to help students develop their ideas about (and empathy with) how and why animals communicate to survive.
Bird Songs Background
Bird Songs: Musical Messages
Bird Songs Musical Messages.pdfBird Communication from Cornell
Bird_Communication_Lesson_Cornell Bird Lab.pdfBird Songs from Hands-On Nature
Bird songs background info.pdfBird Behavior Lesson Plan, Field Card, and Journal Pages
22 April Lesson Plan 2022.pdf24 April Field Card 2022.pdfApril Journal Pages.pdfBird Behavior and Identification Teaching Resources
From http://beetlesproject.org/resources/for-field-instructors/bird-language-exploration/
Bird-Language-Exploration.pdfBird Song Cards and Recorded Bird Songs for Bird Clock Game
Note that we no longer go into the classroom, but play the bird clock game outdoors and teach the bird calls rather than play from a recording. If you would like to play the recording from your phone for the students before teaching them the sound-alike calls we'll use, that is okay, but not really needed. We use the LARGE laminated cards for groups of students instead of the small individual paper cards that we gave the students. If you have any paper cards left in your kit, feel free to use them up.
LARGE Bird Cards with calls for Game
LARGE bird cards with updated photos for clock game.pdfSmall Bird Cards with calls for Game
Bird Song cards-2018.pdfClick the bird images to go to the All About Birds pages with their songs to compare to cards
YouTube Bird Songs you can play directly from this page
Go to 1:00 on the video for the "Chicago" (or "Cuidado") call.
Magic Spot Sound Map
Good way to teach to kids!What are Birds Saying?
One possible interpretation!
From The Institute for Bird Populations' Facebook Page
Alternate Main Activity: Recording Bird Songs
Classroom Resources
Cornell's Birding Resources are wonderful for integrated thematic lessons - you can do Feeder Watch observations all year long, learn about geography through bird migration maps, music, art, science, literature..