Below are ideas for extending this topic beyond the activity & exploration you just completed.

• Readings: Online picture books about birds and springtime!
• Activity: Go Bird Watching
• Activity: Watch a bird feeder on a live cam.

• Red Robin follows the life of a robin from egg to bird.

• It's Spring! and Spring Senses remind children of all the wonderful things that happen in springtime.

If you can take your students outside, go for a walk where you look and listen for birds. In an urban schoolyard, you might see sparrows and pigeons and crows. In a park pond, you’re likely to see ducks and geese and coots. There are birds almost everywhere, even in the middle of a city!

If you can’t go for a walk, consider setting up a window bird feeder for your classroom. Maybe the birds will come to you!

To give your students a close-up look at birds, check out the bird feeder cam, live from Cornell Labs in Ithaca, New York. Ask students questions about what they see.

• How many different kinds of birds do they see?
• What are the birds doing?
• What sounds do they hear?
  

The birds you see will depend on the season of the year, so consider checking the feeder cam at different times of the year.