More details on the BirdSleuth: Most Wanted Birds curriculum and resources...

Teacher's Guide

This 40-page guide includes step-by-step instructions for completing each lesson.  We've added "Teacher Tips" and "It Happened in Class" tip boxes to provide advice and ideas from teachers who have used the lessons.  Within the lessons are annotated images of the associated journal and pages to make teaching from the lessons easier!   View Sample Page

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 copy the pages you'd like to use.  View Sample Page

Reference Guide

This resource contains interesting and informative background articles for you and your students.  The articles in this 25-page guide include "Successful Spying with Binoculars," "Listening in on Birds," and "How to use a Field Guide."  View Sample Page

Resource Kit

Support materials are used to enhance teaching and learning throughout the curriculum. Included in the Resource Kit: 

• Bird ID CD-Rom
• Bird Focus Cards
• Full-color prints
• Common feeder birds poster
• Pocket Naturalist Guide (Waterford Press)
• Support CD-Rom.

Each Most Wanted Birds curriculum kit includes a set of 36 Focus Bird Cards--the perfect way to help your students learn how to identify birds!  Each student will love becoming an expert in their own focus bird.  The front of each card is a beautiful, full-color 5x8 image of the bird.  The back describes the habitat, food preferences, and breeding biolog of the bird, along with a range map, BirdSleuth Trivia Questions, and a Cool Fact. 

We've made it easy for you!  We've included two CD-Roms with teaching resources and games.  One includes teaching resources, such as videos,  audio files, PDFs of all handouts! The second contains an interactive bird ID quiz and includes bird videos, sounds, and photos!

BirdSleuth eBird

The Most Wanted Birds curriculum scaffolds the eBird Citizen Science project. eBird provides an easy way to keep track of the birds you see.

You can view information on your bird observations, and observations tracked from around the country, any time you want—a great opportunity for inquiry! Scientists, conservationists, and birdwatchers who want to know more about the distributions and movement patterns of birds across the continent also use the eBird database. Students like the fact that they are truly helping scientists through citizen science!

Download and view the BirdSleuth: Most Wanted Birds PDF flyer