Your curriculum kit includes six easy-to-use lessons, or "Investigations," that will help you guide your students as they begin studying bird and animal behavior and collect and submit original data. It comes complete with printed curriculum and a Resource Kit.

More Details on the BirdSleuth: Exploring Bird Behavior curriculum and resources...

Teacher's Guide

Investigator's Journal

Each investigation has associated student journal pages that include questions for reflection that can be used in student assessment. You are welcome to make copies the pages you'd like to use for your students.  View Sample Page

Reference Guide

This resource contains interesting and informative background articles for you and your students. The articles in this 22-page guide include "Crows Aren't Picky Eaters," "Gulls Reaching a Goal," and the "Meet the Scientist" series.  View Sample Page

Resource Kit

Support materials are used to enhance teaching and learning throughout the curriculum. You'll have access to amazing animal behavior videos taken by Lab scientists on the Exploring Bird Behavior DVD. Plus we've included two tools, a stopwatch and a tally counter, that will allow students to do authentic behavioral research (counting "events" and timing behavioral "states"). Included in the Resource Kit are:

• Exploring Bird Behavior DVD-Rom
• BirdSleuth Stopwatch
• Tally Counter
• Corvid Behaviors poster, illustrated in full color
• Corvid Behaviors chart
• Corvid Range Maps poster
• Urban Bird Studies CD-Rom
  

Learn about bird behavior, animal intelligence, adaptations, and the scientific process through a series of hands-on, inquiry-based science lessons. 

BirdSleuth, Crows Count and CamClickrs

The Exploring Bird Behaviors curriculum scaffolds two Citizen Science projects: Crows Count and CamClickrs. Both provide a fun, hands-on way to teach your students research design and responsible data collection.

CrowsCount is a project aiming to help scientists learn more about how crows behave in groups across the country. Students learn how to count crows and their Corvid relatives (ravens, magpies, and jays), observe the behaviors of crows and their relatives, and contribute data for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

CamClickrs is the Lab's newest and most innovative citizen science project yet! Conducted completely online, CamClickr will allow participants to move through two levels of behavior classification in an effort to tag and code all of our archived images. Once sorted, the images will help scientists answer questions about intimate nesting behaviors in hundreds of bird species.

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