Today's Classroom Activities :

February is Wild Bird Feeding Month

Create a Bird
Science/Art/Language Arts When working with a unit on birds, invite students to create a new bird. Their bird must have a beak, wings, two feet and a body. After completing their bird, students write about their bird including its name, eggs, call, interesting habits and what it likes to eat.

Seeds of Friendship
Science Find somewhere around your school building where students can leave gifts of seeds for the birds during this National Birdfeeding Month. Try to find a spot near a window, so students can observe visiting birds and record their visits.

Feeding Friends
Science During Wild Bird Feeding Month, lots of different bird feeding techniques can be tried, from peanut butter and seeds on pinecones to an old piece of netting tied and filled with seeds, nuts or fruit. But remember the easy things too – put some bread crust on the window sill or a few pieces of popcorn (popped or unpopped) at the base of a tree. Encourage your students to come up with other low-cost ideas to feed feathered friends.

Flying Bird Fact-Finds
Using this craft activity, student can display information about backyard birds on 3-D bird mobiles.

Bird sounds from Suriname and bird videos
This site has sound recordings of birds in Suriname, also a page with a description of the bird can be found by clicking the picture.

Birds of a feather, an interdisciplinary unit: Math/Science wing
Students will prepare frequency tables and construct a circle graph of the species of birds observed at bird feeders.

How to Make Bird Feeders for Pre-K Students
Each student can make several bird feeders; some to be displayed in the trees outside the classroom window and others to be hung in the trees around their home.

Engaging elementary students with seniors in a bird feeder project
This two-day service-learning project educates elementary students about native birds while engaging them in simple hands-on activities. The project concludes with the children visiting seniors at a nursing home to share what they have learned. AmeriCorps members Chris Kowalski and Jo Anne Britt developed and presented the "It's for the Birds" program for five elementary schools in Lewiston, Idaho.