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These four guides offer quick and easy activities to spark your student’s curiosity about the natural world. Depending on your student’s interests, you can choose one or complete all four. Each guide has an activity than can be used alone or used as an entry point into inquiry-based science.

These Habitat Scavenger Hunt cards will help children see their local environment in a new, fun way! Each card contains an image-rich beginner version on one side and an advanced version on the other, great for both younger and older students!

These bird bingo cards will provide an easy and engaging way to encourage young people to find birds and notice their behaviors.

Explore picture books that will help your students understand the science process, explore diverse scientists, and think like a scientist!

Participatory-science projects like eBird can help make concrete connections between classroom learning and life skills, preparing your students with the tools they need to thrive in the world. This guide gives educator-tested tips, tools, and activities for scaffolding students in…

Students as Scientists: Nature-Based Inquiry units features two teachers guides, one for grades K-5 and the other for grades 6-12.

Find all the supporting resources you need to implement Students as Scientist in K-5th grade classrooms.

 Project FeederWatch (PFW) is a November-April survey of birds that visit schoolyards, backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America.  To sign up for PFW, visit their website here.

This FeederWatch Classroom Guide helps educators engage their K-8th…

Build bird identification skills with students by downloading a copy of your free 3-5 lesson. Learn about color patterns and field marks then take your students outdoors to put their new knowledge to the test.

A mole, a vole or a shrew? What could those bones in your owl pellet possibly be? Download our free bone identification guide to solve the mystery!

Engaging science lessons brought to you by your local birds! Our friends at Pennington Wild Birds are working with us to educate and engage children in the pleasures of feeding and watching birds with this free download.

Students from around the country love going outside and watching birds. Then they get curious and start asking questions about what they are seeing. Those questions turn into research projects and innovative studies that the students design themselves. We invite…

K-12 Education wants to help you get kids outside and enjoying their local parks and natural areas. Take kids on a habitat scavenger hunt, create a sound map, and test bird ID skills with this adaptable activity book.

Have you ever wondered what birds are saying as they sing, call, quack, and drum? With these dynamic activities, you and your students will investigate why and how birds communicate.

Our high-definition cameras give you and your students a wonderfully unique glimpse into the real lives of birds. Nest cams make an excellent supplement to your unit!

Build, install and monitor nest boxes to help your students grasp a better understanding of life cycles. Download the free lessons to accompany the videos and activities.