January found me Bonkers 4 Birds!
Our partners at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Great River Museum http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/rivers/museum.html developed the program for 4th and 5th grade classrooms as part of their educational outreach programming. I enjoyed co-teaching the program to ~150 area students.
Bonkers 4 Birds teaches students basic bird identification techniques utilizing things like bird posture, size, color, and field markings. Students learn to use binoculars and to sketch birds using what they have learned about field markings.
Each class chooses a bird species that they research together, then each student individually submits a drawing of the class bird. Student artwork is judged, with 2-3 winners per class chosen for inclusion in this years Bonkers 4 Birds book published by the Corps. Students with published artwork are celebrated with a book signing event at our annual Wings of Spring Migratory Bird Festival in May.
The Wings of Spring Migratory Bird Festival is week long celebration of the annual migration of hundreds of species of birds along the Mississippi River Flyway, one of the most significant in the world. For more information please visit this site: http://www.ngrrec.org/index.php/education/168
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