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Nurturing a Love of Birds

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We're looking for teachers who use BirdNote in the classroom. Share your lesson plan or find one to use. Learn more. Then submit your own plan.

In classrooms around the country, teachers who love birds and nature are introducing children to a source of life-long enjoyment. Emily Czerwonka, a kindergarten teacher, asks her students to select and study a bird “most like them.” Rocco, pictured here, says, “I’m studying the Great Horned Owl because it can tear up its food and eat the meat — and I like meat!”

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BirdNote®
Nurturing a Love of Birds

Interviews and writing by Chris Peterson

This is BirdNote!

[Kindergartners sing “Inch by Inch”]

In classrooms around the country, teachers who love birds and nature are introducing students to a source of life-long enjoyment.  Here’s kindergarten teacher Emily Czerwonka:

“So they choose a bird that is most like them. And then they go through different steps in learning about that bird so, it’s about a 3-month project that we do and they get to present their knowledge as ornithologists to their school community and the community at large.”  

Rocco knows why he made his choice:

“I’m studying the Great Horned Owl…because it can tear up its food and eat the meat – and I like meat.”

We asked Molly what someone should know about her bird, the Pileated Woodpecker:

“They eat like ants and spiders. They have a chiseled beak and climbing feet, and their babies have little tufts of hair that are just kind of orange.”

Cedar holds his life-size replica of a Snowy Owl. Why the Snowy Owl?  

“Because I like the colors black and white and I like that it has hooked feet. Um, it eats rodents and fish and sometimes bunnies…wild bunnies.”

Wild bunnies… 

If you know a teacher who uses BirdNote in the classroom, let us know and we may feature their work. Begin at BirdNote.org. I’m Michael Stein. [Kindergartners singing “Inch by Inch”]

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All tracks recorded by C. Peterson.
BirdNote’s theme music was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson / Dominic Black

© 2015 Tune In to Nature.org     September 2015   Narrator: Michael Stein

ID#     czerwonkae-01-2013-09-20czerwonkae-01           Marantz V Tracks 168, 179, 177, 176, 178, 180.

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