Ornithologists

This week we kicked off our new learning expedition all about Birds!  

We had a visit from our local Backcountry Educational department to help us think about our guiding question:

What makes a bird a bird?

Students rotated between different stations to closely observe different things about birds.

Our local experts brought feathers, beaks, talons and/or feet plus eggs for our ornithologists to closely observe and touch.

Thanks to our opportunity of inquiry and the guidance of our experts we learned that birds have:

1. feathers

2. wings

3. two feet

4. a beak

We also learned that all birds lay eggs!

After our experts left, students had the opportunity to discovery read all kinds of bird books!  We are so excited to become bird experts and teach you all that we are learning!

You can support this learning by:
~getting outside and noticing birds and nests
~reading bird books
~visiting Backcountry Base camp right here in Highlands Ranch