Birds/Owls/Woodland Forest Habitat

• See Animal Needs video

• Read big book Animals and their Babies

• Do animal needs experiment outside.  Assign students to 4 different owl nests (different colored hoola hoops).  Arrange different family groups.  EX:  1 father owl and 4 babies or 1mother/1 father/1 baby.  Discuss which family group will be most successful in getting food.  Scatter colored jelly beans around yard.  Baby owls must stay in the nest and are given a stomach (small plastic cup)  The parent owls are given a stomach and a plastic fork with some of the tongs missing.  The rule is they must find the jelly beans and feed themselves a bean then feed a baby, themselves and then another baby.  When time is called, the jelly beans are counted.  They think they know which family was most successful until you tell them the white jelly beans are poison and then the nests get wiped out rather quickly.  Some nests only have a baby left, therefore the nest will die.    If you have rambunctious "babies" and they step outside the nest, they are dead as they have fallen out of the nest and must sit out for the rest of the experiment.

• Get books from the book room:  Owls, Raccoons, Skunks, and Foxes.  Do Owls as class research.  Raccoons, Skunks, and Foxes research will be done in advanced reading group.

Owl Moon complete sequencing worksheet

Owl at Home

Owls

• Read The Owl and the Pussycat and discuss fiction/non fiction

• See Woodland Forest video

• See Birds video

• Make owl facts booklet and art project

• Complete owl anatomy worksheet

• Review "Owls"  and "Birds of Prey" Zoobook

• Write an owl Super Sentence and illustrate.

• Take a look at a real owl pellet

• Make and eat noodle nests

Melt 3T butter and stir in 3T peanut butter.  Then add 3 c. mini marshmallows.  Stir until mixture is smooth and melted.  Add a 12 oz. bag of chow mein noodles and stir.  Put in muffin tins.  Shape into nests.  Put in 2 peanut M&Ms for eggs.

Websites:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/animalclassgame.htm

classification of animals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/habitats.shtml  animal habitats

animal habitats

http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/habitat/habitat.htm  habitats

Woodland Forest

books:  Deciduous Forest     Evergreen Forest -   Make leaf and evergreen prints

Create a diorama with Jan Brett characters from The Mitten

http://education.stonehill.edu/fieldguide/woodland_habitat.htm     woodland forest plants and animals

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