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Welcome to 4th Grade!
Welcome to 4th Grade!
The Aves Compartidas 4th grade curriculum teaches about several key terrestrial migratory birds shared between watersheds in Guanajuato, Mexico, and Oregon, USA, to support the ecological and cultural connections shared between each place.
Our lessons encourage students to bridge their knowledge in the classroom with the outside world. This is accomplished through five core learning outcomes that explore birds' key characteristics, life cycle, dietary habits, and the dangers that migratory birds face during migration. Each lesson builds on the last, supporting students' critical thinking as we connect the human dimensions of the environment into our curriculum.
Each week, the students are introduced to one of our five Spotlight Species, where they learn facts about the birds' diet, habitat, and migratory patterns. The opportunity also supports students in practicing their observation skills by reinforcing the 5 steps to identify a bird. At the culmination of the curriculum, students are taken on a field trip to Mount Pisgah. Here, they put their skills to the test after learning how to use binoculars and field guides in hopes of meeting the friends they have been learning about for the past five weeks.
4th-grade students learning how to play Migration Tag outside
4th-grade students learning how to make pine cone bird feeders
4th Grade Species Spotlight: Yellow Warbler
4th Grade Species Spotlight: Yellow Warbler
Our Species Spotlight is the Yellow Warbler, a petite songbird that migrates between Oregon and Guanajuato, Mexico. This foliage gleaner and insect-eating bird is one of the most common warblers found in North America. While you may not catch one at a backyard bird feeder, you can catch them at their nesting sites across streamsides, thickets, and small trees.
Yellow Warblers, like many birds, migrate in the middle of the night. However, they still come across many dangers. In the classroom, 4th-grade students learn several ways they can help their migrating friends, including keeping their cats indoors and turning off building lights during high migration periods.
Students are excited to learn about the Yellow Warbler for its bright colors and sweet sweeet sweet, I'm so sweet songs.
Yellow Warbler - Photo by Brad Imhoff / Macaulay Library
4th Grade Curriculum by Week
4th Grade Curriculum by Week
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