Sample Materials

Each week for the five in-classroom lessons, we facilitated an activity called the "Species Spotlight". The week would highlight a migratory bird shared by the Willamette River watershed and the Laja watershed. We designed infographics for each of our spotlight species in the format of a field guide page and printed out copies for each of our teachers to hang in their classrooms. We made sure to create posters that were in both English and Spanish to provide clear information and highlight the bilingual nature of the Aves Compartidas program. 

After our five classroom lessons were completed, we led students on a morning field trip at Mt. Pisgah Arboretum in Eugene, Oregon. This field trip included a binocular usage activity, a nature walk around the arboretum, bird watching, and journaling about their observations in the field trip booklet I designed. Since each grade focused on different content for their in-class lessons, the second page of the field guide changed for their field trips so as to provide more appropriate information for those students. This field guide is an example of the one used for fourth grade, which includes our five Spotlight Species on the second page. Other pages include the steps to identifying a bird, bird and plant field guides in English and Spanish, and a dedicated section to write down observations from their nature walks. The formatting of the field guide below reflects the correct formatting for printing; when on paper, this field guide was a booklet that we attached to a string so students could carry it around without the fear of misplacing it on the trail.