This five-week series of science lessons for 1st and 2nd grade elementary school students closely matches State Science Curriculum guidelines. Students learn about 12 of the most commonly seen bird species around the campus and at home.

McKinley School 2nd graders discover birds on campus. Photo by Gabriele Drozdowski

The five-week, one-lesson-per-week program includes:

• Highly visual and colorful card packages for students and teachers with information about 12 common local bird species, their habitats, their adaptions, life cycles, harmful and helpful human actions, and a sound CD of the 12 species.

• Two classroom visits by live birds of prey, demonstrating live the meaning of newly learned curriculum.

• A schoolyard bird walk and a field trip to Lake Los Carneros.

• Harmful and helpful things that humans do for wild neighbors.

• Pre-test and post-test.

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