Shorebird Identification

Positives

• Students should be able to do the first two activities independently, making this an easy-to-implement sub plan.
• Students will love seeing and hearing the different shorebirds.

Prerequisites

• The audio on the first slideshow doesn't work.
• Section 3 asks students to use the bird counting sheet per the teacher's instructions, but the teacher instructions aren't available in the resource. If the school is close to these birds' habitats, students can go birdwatching and use the data sheet to record the birds they find.
• Students may need some words defined before doing the activities, such as pelagic, migrate, metabolism, and others.
  

Differentiation & Implementation

• Math students can practice graphing skills by creating various graphs with the Bird Counting Datasheet.
• Students in language arts classes can write poems to illustrate the trash in the habitats.
• Some students may benefit from a graphic organizer to add to as they look through the slides.
• Students can log their plastic use and make a commitment to reduce it to protect shorebird habitats.