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School Gardens for the Birds!
Creating and maintaining a school garden is a wonderful way to encourage your students to spend more time outdoors. It will not only serve as a beautiful outdoor space, but also as center for learning....
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American Robins: Signs of Spring?
Picture a beautiful spring day: the sun is out, a pleasant breeze flows over you, the trees are fluffy with colorful flowers, and birds are singing. Do you hear a song like this? That’s the call of the...
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It’s Earth Week: Jump into action
No matter how big or small, your actions make a difference! Some birds travel up to 500 miles a day, some breed in the extreme winters of the Antarctic. Others have nests not much wider than a quarter....
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Evolution in Paradise
We are pleased to bring you three exciting lessons inspired by the birds-of-paradise! These lessons explore the topics of science process, natural and sexual selection, behavior and heritability...
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Window Crash
There are plenty reasons for people to love windows—they let in natural light, they make rooms feel bigger, and they remind us that no matter how long we spend cooped up indoors at work or at school,...
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Feathered Friends Activities
Engaging science lessons brought to you by your local birds! Our friends at Pennington Wild Birds are working with us to educate and engage children and families in citizen science and the pleasures of...
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Birds Across Changing Seasons
By Jennifer Fee, K-12 Program Manager The more I learn about birds, the more I notice them. Over the last ten years, they’ve become a bigger part of my everyday life. For example, I like changing...
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Every year, many people ask: “I have a bald bird at my feeder! Is it sick? What should I do?” Often, these bald birds are Blue Jays or Northern Cardinals. Maybe the fact that these birds are so...
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Tips for Engaging Young Birders in Citizen Science
Citizen Science is a great way to get kids engaged in STEM learning and achieve common core standards. Our Most Wanted Birds curriculum and eBird with Groups guide each provide tips and tools for...
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Feeding Birds Webinar
Educators, you are invited to our free “Feeding our Feathered Friends” webinar! –> REGISTER HERE <– Note: Webinar is at 8:00pm Eastern Time Feeding birds can spark kids’ curiosity, interest in...
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Take a “Field Trip” to the Delta
Picture a Great Egret, its s-shaped neck craning upward, its large wings splashed with the orange rays of the fading sun. Suddenly he leaves the marshy ground for the sky above, flying over the waves...
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School Gardens for the Birds!
Creating and maintaining a school garden is a wonderful way to encourage your students to spend more time outdoors. It will not only serve as a beautiful outdoor space, but also as center for learning....
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Tips for Bird ID
Beginning birding with your students? Check out these five tips! So you want to do citizen science projects like eBird and Project FeederWatch with your students? That’s great! But like other...
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Courtship Advice From Birds
It’s that special time of year. Love is in the air…and our feathered friends certainly know it! As spring slowly approaches in North America, we know that many species will begin puffing up their...
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Starting a Bird Club?
Why start a bird club? What better way to get your students interested in birds than by forming a bird club? Bird clubs can range from a small group to an entire class who engage in activities such as...
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Do birds sleep?
Have you ever wondered what happens to birds at night? Where do they go? What do they do? Do birds really sleep? The answer is yes…but it’s a little more complicated than that. Birds have several...
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Mapping with Birds
eBird provides the perfect opportunity to introduce students to maps and build their knowledge of mapping skills and biology. Maps are an essential STEM tool and can help teach quantitative skills and...
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