Educate & Entertain

Discover creative ways to to learn about nature and teach students, family and friends with the following links.

Celebrate Urban Birding - Become a Citizen Scientist. Anyone can be one. Go to this interesting site to learn more. Download the CELEBRATE URBAN BIRDS kits. It includes:

Welcome Letter - The welcome letter has instructions and a wonderful bird identification guide on the back. Take this beautiful guide with you when you go out to watch birds!

Silhouette Poster with Cool Facts - Learn to identify birds by looking at their shapes. This poster includes information (cool facts) about the 16 species we are tracking.

Celebrate Urban Birds Identification Poster - The poster features city birds in a whimsical urban setting with lots of practical information on the back about threats to birds in cities, ways to create a bird-friendly green space in your neighborhood, and how to attract birds.

Data Sheet - Please fill in this data form after you watch birds. You can mail your form in to the Lab at Celebrate Urban Birds, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca NY, 14850 or if possible please enter your observations online (you’ll need to create a citizen science account before you can share your observations).

Learn about Peregrine Falcons Fun Facts Site has video clips, facts & Coloring page.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Educational Resources

Wings Over Florida Program
Wings Over Florida is a FREE award program open to resident and non-resident Florida birdwatchers. Its purpose is to encourage YOU to identify as many native birds as you can within Florida.

Junior Birding Program
Welcome to the Wings Over Florida Junior Birder Program. The program was developed to help teachers introduce younger students (3rd - 4th grade) to bird watching.
Living with Wildlife
Project Wild
Florida Schoolyard Project

To download a Snowy Plover Poster for a coloring project from the Florida Shorebird Alliance.

FSA provides an online resource for information and materials on Florida's shorebirds and seabirds, and improve the level of coordination and information sharing between the various groups involved in shorebird and seabird conservation across Florida.

Valuable resource for Florida Seasbird and Shorebirds!

Beach-nesting Bird Materials
Roof-top Materials

The Migration Game - from Environment for the Americas

The following links are from Environment for the America with numerous links to provide fun activities and learning at the same time

http://www.birdday.org/pdf/migrationgame.pdf

Free Materials

The free materials were developed for International Migratory Bird Day or provided by other organizations where noted. We greatly appreciate our partners in bird education for sharing their materials.

Games & Activities

Basics About Birds and Birding

What is a Bird? Use this activity to teach what makes a bird a bird.
Go Birding Geocache Use a high-tech treasure hunt to encourage visitors to explore habitats and birds.
Bird Topography Use a puzzle to teach the basic parts of a bird.
Field Guides 101 Gain ideas for selecting and introducing field guides.
Using Binoculars Gain ideas for helping teach others how to use binoculars.
Wing Span Banner Let visitors to compare their 'wing span' to birds. The print size is 14' x 4.

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