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Stand alone lessons & activities

Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance's education team has developed a variety of active, engaging, and artistic activities and projects for students to learn about the environment, wildlife, and birds! Use any of these single lessons to get your students excited about nature!

Safer and Funner at Home activities

These are all geared toward getting kids, families, and individuals outside, moving, learning, and exploring during the time of shelter in place, or in Wisconsin, “Safer at Home.”

• Online Video Lessons

• May BIRDO Challenge

• Nature Journals

• Scavenger Hunts and Nature Baskets

• Bird Skulls

• Connecting with Nature

• Nature Art

• Get Moving!

• Exploring Plants

Get Active

• Leaf Shape Observation Sheet

• Bird Yoga

• ABC & Urban Wildlife Scavenger Hunt

• Elementary (Olbrich) Scavenger Hunt

• Winter Scavenger Hunt

• Prairie Scavenger Hunt

• Science Questions Scavenger Hunt

Indoor Activities

• Save the Gulf (feathers & oil experiment, feather pdf)

• Bird Beak Buffet (and food items)

• Bird Call BINGO

Art Projects

• Engineer a Bird Feeder (K-6)

• Build-A-Bird Lesson & Bird Parts (Grades K-4)

• Bird Silhouette lesson plan and silhouette examples (Grades K-6)