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.
From http://beetlesproject.org/resources/for-field-instructors/bird-language-exploration/
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.
Click the bird images to go to the All About Birds pages with their songs to compare to cards
Go to 1:00 on the video for the "Chicago" (or "Cuidado") call.
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..