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Birding and Migration Field Trip Series (3-5)

Pre-visit (1-hour): Take your class on a multimedia ‘;virtual tour’ of our bird-banding station. Students will learn how to read a migration map and practice bird identification using field guides.

Field Trip (2-3 hours): See the awe in your students as they witness live birds being banded, identified, weighed, measured, and released. Your class will use binoculars on a birding walk to find a variety of songbirds, waterfowl, wading birds, and more.

Post-visit (1-hour): Back in the classroom, students will use banding tools to weigh and measure life-size bird models. Work in small teams to test their survival skills with a group role-play challenge that highlights the challenges birds face during migration.

Locations: School & Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.???

Program Location(s):

  • Joppa Flats, Newburyport

  • Your school

Grades:

3, 4, 5

Pricing and Financial Aid:

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Learning Standards Supported:

  • 3-LS3-1 - Heredity--Inheritance and Variation of Traits - plant/animal inhereted traits evidence

  • 3-LS4-2 - Biological Evolution--Unity and Diversity - individual variation relates to survival

  • 3-LS4-3 - Biological Evolution--Unity and Diversity - env. constraints on organisms survival

  • 4-LS1-1 - From Molecules to Organisms--Structures and Processes - animal/plant, internal/external structures

Contact:

For more information email us - [email protected].