Teacher Tips and
Activity Ideas
Send us YOUR tips/activity ideas
Online scavenger hunt -- D. Smith
Birding backpacks -- G.Petri
Create your own local field guide --
R. Patten
Birding buddies -- C. Prendergast
Five facts (taking field notes) --
T. Root
Real food chains -- L. Langstaff
No birds -- M. Ashton
"Life of Birds" video
w/activity -- D. Waud, G. Petri
Field trip to local park -- D. Waud,
G. Petri
Pairing field guides w/descriptive
nature books -- D. Waud, G. Petri
Multi-media bird ID -- E. Henline
Flute's journey ecology game --
E.Henline
Holiday for the Birds (incl.
visiting bird resource person) -- D. Waud, G. Petri
Holiday for the Birds (with parent
involvement) -- J. Conca
Technology design -- bird feeders --
L. Watts
Geography lesson -- T. Sams
Graphing/mapping feeders and feeder
area -- E. Henline
Students become species specialists
-- D. Waud
Send us YOUR activity ideas to:
schoolyard@cornell.edu or
Citizen Science in
the Schoolyard
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
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