The Project encourages classes to volunteer as trackers, and provides teachers with a solid collection of supplementary resources and activities. This site provides a comprehensive collection of links to dozens of species and hundreds of Web sites devoted to general and species information. A good reference for students and teachers. This outstanding curriculum, designed by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, invites students and teachers to participate in a national, ongoing research project based upon observation of birds at feeders. An extended project for grades 5-8, the study begins with an introduction to food webs.
Students learn how to conduct an experiment and write scientific papers.
They then choose a site for the feeder, describe the habitat, and submit their information online. Afterwards, they monitor the site, identify and count visiting birds, and then graph their data. This information is also submitted online, and students learn to draw conclusions from their data. Finally, they design their own experiment using principles learned during the lab. Alive Sponsored by the Central American Commission for Environment and Development, this site features live e-tours of birds in their natural Costa Rican habitats.