Chapter 12: Birds and Mammals
Students will identify the common characteristics of birds and how they are adapted to their environments. They'll research the types of flight and explain how a bird is able to fly. Here's a great resource from Nebraska, Project Beak, all about birds.
Using the scientific method, students will inquire how wing shape and size affects flight distance (adapted from an activity from the University of Georgia). They will design paper airplane birds and test their hypotheses in class! Here's a link to just a few design options for paper birds that can fly.
David Widener, MS IT specialist, raises homing pigeons (which he races too)! Check out this interesting article about what can affect the flight patterns.
They will also describe the characteristics common to all mammals and list the three main groups of mammals. Students can choose to contribute to the observations and data collected by Project Squirrel, an initiative started by the University of Chicago, OR Celebrate Urban Birds, from Cornell Lab of Orinthology.
Using the scientific method, students will inquire how wing shape and size affects flight distance (adapted from an activity from the University of Georgia). They will design paper airplane birds and test their hypotheses in class! Here's a link to just a few design options for paper birds that can fly.
David Widener, MS IT specialist, raises homing pigeons (which he races too)! Check out this interesting article about what can affect the flight patterns.
They will also describe the characteristics common to all mammals and list the three main groups of mammals. Students can choose to contribute to the observations and data collected by Project Squirrel, an initiative started by the University of Chicago, OR Celebrate Urban Birds, from Cornell Lab of Orinthology.