Bird watching
While this may not be the best time of the year to begin, Bird Watching Lessons can still be planned and some activities carried out through the winter and into the spring. This site linked will give you lots of wonderful ideas and resources for building a cross-curricular unit study with the central theme of bird watching. This is a unit that could stay with your child for years to come, creating in him a love of bird watching and conservation.
A few weeks ago, I took a vacation in a mountainous area of our state. While there, a park interpreter took us on a bird watching outing and supplied us not only with information, but with small bushnell binoculars. She taught us how to focus the binoculars, which was something certainly new for me. She then led us on a trek to identify bird calls and birds we saw as we went along.
The one thing that impressed me the most was something she said: Bird watching isn't so much about the birds, but about the people you are with and the memories you create for yourself on each outing.
Wise woman, indeed.
Labels: Science, Unit Studies
posted by Ann crum @ 10:44 PM
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