Be a Bird Brain
FallWinterSpring
Bird perched on child's outstretched handEveryday experiences can become unique, if you approach them with a new perspective. Help your students gain an entirely new perspective on birds, with this engaging, hands on bird program. Learn how birds protect themselves from danger, participate in some intricate bird dances and sing with the birds, using tapes and special bird callers. We'll watch birds forage at the feeders and we'll stalk wild birds in the woods with binoculars. Let us take away some of the dryness associated with bird watching, by giving your students a taste of our bird program.
Grade 2,4 (This program can be modified to suit any grade)

Curriculum Links & Expectations:

Grade 2 : Science and Technology

Life Systems - Growth and Changes in Animals
2s1 demonstrate an understanding of the similarities and differences among various types of animals and the ways in which animals adapt to different environmental conditions;
2s3 identify ways in which humans can affect other animals.
2s4 identify and describe the major physical characteristics of different types of animals (e.g., mammals, reptiles, insects);
2s5 identify and describe behavioural characteristics that enable animals to survive (e.g., migration, dormancy, hibernation);
2s6 classify a variety of animals using observable characteristics (e.g., size, body covering, teeth);
2s11 describe ways in which animals respond and adapt to their environment (e.g., weasels change colour for camouflage in summer and winter; mammals living in colder climates have longer fur);
2s20 describe ways in which humans can help or harm other living things (e.g., protecting endangered species);

Grade 4 : Science and Technology

Life Systems - Habitats and Communities
4s2 investigate the dependency of plants and animals on their habitat and the interrelationships of the plants and animals living in a specific habitat;
4s3 describe ways in which humans can change habitats and the effects of these changes on the plants and animals within the habitats.
4s4 identify, through observation, various factors that affect plants and animals in a specific habitat (e.g., availability of water, food sources, light; ground features; weather conditions);
4s7 describe structural adaptations of plants and animals that demonstrate a response of the living things to their environment (e.g., the height of a plant depends on the amount of sunlight the plant gets; many animals that live in the Arctic have white fur);
4s8 recognize that animals and plants live in specific habitats because they are dependent on those habitats and have adapted to them (e.g., ducks live in marshes because they need marsh plants for food and shelter and water for movement);
4s9 classify plants and animals that they have observed in local habitats according to similarities and differences (e.g., in shape, location).
4s16 describe ways in which humans can affect the natural world (e.g., urban development forces some species to go elsewhere and enables other species to multiply too rapidly; conservation areas can be established to protect specific habitats);
4s18 show the effects on plants and animals of the loss of their natural habitat (e.g., nesting sites of ducks may be destroyed when a dam is built);

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