Do Birds Have Teeth?

LIFE SCIENCES

Curiosity trigger

Students will watch a film in which a child handfeeds hummingbirds. They will play the role of birds – they will obtain food using tools that simulate bird beaks, and then carry the food to their “nests.”

Curriculum and Skills

Work and Life Skills:

Critical thinking and drawing conclusion
Environmental awareness

In this lesson, you will cover:

You will need

Tools that simulate bird beaks (such as tweezers or tea infusers) and objects simulating bird food (e.g., bits of yarn as worms, cereal grains, colored water as nectar). The lesson requires prior preparation. It’s neither difficult nor time-consuming.

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Authors

Author: Natalia Wielechowska
Methodology: Małgorzata Sławińska
Translation: George Lisowski
Producer: Agnieszka Napora

Source

This is a modified version of a lesson plan created by the Children’s University Foundation under the CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Photograph: Hummingbird of Silver Plume published on flickr under the CC-BY 2.0 license.

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