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Birds

Count the birds in your garden for a week and find out who actually lives there.

1 week

The same topic, four ways

Pre-K to Grade 2

Spot and name. Draw the one you see most.

🔬 Science✏️ Writing

Science

Grades 3 to 5

Tally the species and graph the result.

🔬 Science🔢 Math

Math

Grades 6 to 8

Beak shape and diet — predict what a bird eats from its face.

🔬 Science📚 Reading

Science

Grades 9 to 10

Migration and what a warming spring does to the timing of it.

🔬 Science✏️ Writing🌍 Social Studies

Science

Build it together: The one-week bird count

What you need

  • a window
  • paper
  • a bird book or a phone

Steps

  1. Agree a ten-minute slot at the same time each day.
  2. Everyone watches. Youngest calls them out, oldest tallies.
  3. Graph the week on the last day.
  4. Decide together which bird owns your garden.

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