During library last week, I taught both classes the fundamentals of using a field guide. Our research project for LABS will be to create a personal field guide of the 15 common birds found around the neighborhood. Using the index of a book is a fourth grade reference skill, and I was able to have the students practice this with the field guides. I pointed out that birds with a two-part common name, such as Northern Cardinal, are looked up by the second part much like a person is looked up by their last name. Each student was given a set of the common bird pages that I acquired from notebookingpages.com Students will complete the page for each bird, then we will use the spiral binder to create the field guide. The assignment for the week was to fill in the common and scientific names, then color the picture appropriately.
During library last week, I taught both classes the fundamentals of using a field guide. Our research project for LABS will be to create a personal field guide of the 15 common birds found around the neighborhood. Using the index of a book is a fourth grade reference skill, and I was able to have the students practice this with the field guides. I pointed out that birds with a two-part common name, such as Northern Cardinal, are looked up by the second part much like a person is looked up by their last name. Each student was given a set of the common bird pages that I acquired from notebookingpages.com Students will complete the page for each bird, then we will use the spiral binder to create the field guide. The assignment for the week was to fill in the common and scientific names, then color the picture appropriately.
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