Engaging Activities for Learning About Bird Behavior
Explore various interactive activities focused on bird behavior and nature, including watching films, imagining bird's eye views, planning bird flights, brainstorming eco-friendly school ideas, listening to nature sounds, and engaging in bird role-play discussions. These engaging tasks aim to promote creativity, curiosity, and environmental awareness among students.
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Bird Behaviour By Sophie Parkes
Watch Bird Behaviour here After watching the film, talk to the person you are sitting next to about what you liked or enjoyed most. Did you have a favourite moment? Share some of these favourite moments with the rest of the class. If you could talk to any animal, which would you choose and why? Teachers please help us by filling in our online evaluation form here
A Birds Eye View A Bird s Eye View What does it mean to have a bird s eye view? What does it mean to have a bird s eye view? It s a view from a high angle, as though it was seen by a bird in flight. Think of what a bird would see if they were flying over your school or where you live. Can you paint or draw a picture that would show this?
Take Flight! Take Flight! Imagine you were a bird and were going to fly from your school to your link school. Use an online map (like Google Maps) to plan the most interesting journey between the two schools. interesting journey between the two schools. plan the most What will you fly over, will you detour to take a quick look at parks, rivers or playgrounds? Remember you are a bird, so you don t have to follow the roads. Use a large sheet of paper to draw your travel plan.
Go Green Go Green How can we make our school more eco How can we make our school more eco- -friendly? friendly? Think of as many ideas as you can that would help our school be even more eco-friendly than it already is. How about encouraging everyone to walk to school at least once a week or planting wildflowers on school grounds to encourage insects? Once we have come up with a range of ideas we will vote on our top three and investigate what we would need to do to make them happen. We will share our best idea with our Headteacher and school governors!
Sounds of Nature Sounds of Nature Listen! Listen! What can you hear in our classroom? How is that different to what the lady could hear when she was flying? We are going to listen to some sounds from nature. Relax. Close your eyes. Try and picture what you are listening to. Freshwater lake atmosphere (Frensham Great Pond, Surrey) - British wildlife recordings - Environment and nature | British Library - Sounds (bl.uk) OR https://sounds.bl.uk/Environment/British-wildlife-recordings/022M-W1CDR0001430-0800V0 What could you hear? What did it make you think of? If you could design a nature sound track what would you want to include and why?
Role Play Role Play Working with the person you are sitting near to, pretend one of you is one of the birds. Role play a conversation Role play a conversation where you try to convince the other that they should walk and cycle. Swap roles. Share your scenes with your class. Are there any other animals who would like human beings to share the planet a little better? Role play another conversation Role play another conversation with one of you pretending to be a different animal, such as a bee, or a butterfly, or a hedgehog .or another you have chosen. What would these animals like us to do to help them?
Photo Story Photo Story Take 5 photos of you performing the following moments: Take 5 photos of you performing the following moments: 1) Seeing the bird crash into the window. 2) Explaining to the birds that you have to stay inside. 3) Starting to flap your wings. 4) Realising the world is beautiful. 5) Crash landing. Print or put them in order on PowerPoint. Write underneath them to tell a story.
Dear Diary Dear Diary Write a diary entry from the Bird s point of view. Write a diary entry from the Bird s point of view. What do you think they might be feeling and thinking after the events in the story? What do you think they might say?
A Puppet Show A Puppet Show At home or at school, make sock puppets woman in the performance. You can leave them plain or you can decorate them how you want. make sock puppets of the bird and the Create a sock puppet performance Create a sock puppet performance recreating the conversation between the bird and the woman.
