{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"61810918","dateCreated":"1365094612","smartDate":"Apr 4, 2013","userCreated":{"username":"birdcramer","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/birdcramer","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/connectingkidsthroughbirds.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/61810918"},"dateDigested":1532725915,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Fantastic New Book! ","description":"This year, a fabulous new book called Moonbird: A Year on the WInd with the Great Survivor B95 came into my classroom.  It follows one bird through its perilous migration from the tip of South America up to The Arctic.  It meets a variety of the Common Core Standards for literature along with illustrating all of the important factors that play into migration.  It goes hand-in-hand with this curriculum and is a wonderful non-fiction book.  It had wonderful graphics and excellent maps and also highlights the role that people play in habitat maintenance.  Five stars for any ornithology curriculum!","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"51705532","dateCreated":"1331740785","smartDate":"Mar 14, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"birdcramer","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/birdcramer","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/connectingkidsthroughbirds.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/51705532"},"dateDigested":1532725915,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"curriculum books that tie in","description":"Hello everyone!  I found Flute's Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush by Lynne Cherry, Hummingbird's Nest by Kristine O'Connell George, and Birds of a Feather by Jane Yolen to be excellent literature tie-ins, esp.  Flute's Journey, which discusses almost all of the topics in this curriculum. It is a picture book, but even my 7th graders read it in a few minutes to help solidify the topics we covered.  The rest are books of poems, a nice tie-in to National Poetry Month, which is coming up soon!","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"52729818","body":"Oh, I also forgot Who Really Killed Cock Robin by Jean Craighead George.  While it is a bit dated (set right after DDT was banned), it is an eco-mystery and models bird watching, journaling, and citizen science.  The students really enjoyed seeing the types of activities we were doing in class modeled in the book, it broadened their interests in the class lessons, and encouraged them to problem solve (following the clues in the book)I also used My Side of The Mountain for another reading group.","dateCreated":"1334078711","smartDate":"Apr 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"birdcramer","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/birdcramer","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"43509196","dateCreated":"1317575324","smartDate":"Oct 2, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"birdcramer","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/birdcramer","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/connectingkidsthroughbirds.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/43509196"},"dateDigested":1532725915,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"setting up the share your habitat wiki","description":"FYI- I work with a multi-age class (fourth-8th grade) and when I began working on the habitat exchange wiki page, I used the habitat form from the classroom feeder watch program for my seventh and eighth graders.  I sat outside with the younger students, guiding them through the questions online while the older students worked either independently or in groups to answer the questions on the form.  This was a nice introduction into record keeping as they had to use specific measurements and (independently) learn about the different types of trees etc. that were in our environment.  This also provided them with solid prior knowledge when we went on our observation walks to identify the specific types of trees, etc in our habitat.   A previous teacher had info left over from her classroom feeder watch program.  I also bought a poster from the Audubon society that has the northeaster feeder birds and hung it on the wall next to our feeders to help encourage the class to start watching the birds outside of the designated class time.  They are really responding well to the poster and it is generating lots of good conversations about the differences between birds","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}