Book: Animals in Flight by Steve Jenkins and Robing Page Description: Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts fly!

Activities:

• Look at diagrams of typical wing shapes and discuss how each is adapted for a different type of flight (see links below).

• Make flying “birds” (paper airplanes colored to look like birds). Encourage children to try making different wing types.

• Launch your flock outside or in a large room. Observe variations in flight: how far, flight pattern, how long they stay up, etc. If you have time, have the children modify their bird and see what changes they can make to its flight.

•  Wing shapes

•  http://www.nhm.org/birds/guide/pg018.html

•  http://www.aviary.org/curric/profiles.html