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Inside Birding: Episode One, Size and Shape
This video series from All About Birds is designed to teach children the basics to birdwatching.
Here is a summary about this episode from the All About Birds site.
Learn the most fundamental skill for identifying birds: recognizing them by size and shape.
Chris and Jessie show you how to compare different birds and employ your observations to make a confident ID. Join them in the field to practice these techniques on common birds and learn how to distinguish similar species such as Hairy and Downy woodpeckers.
Check out the online bird guide at All About Birds!
Click here for more links from All About Birds. Page down to Explore More to read about sharpening your ID skills with silhouettes, a video about the American Robin, and honing your ability to ID birds with beak size and shape.
Episode Two: Color Pattern
Episode Summary from the All About Birds Site:
If you’re relying solely on your field guide to make an ID, you might be missing out on easy opportunities to identify the birds you see.
Join Jessie and Chris as they demonstrate the importance of observing a bird’s overall color pattern. Learn to recognize specific features and patterns to identify birds with confidence.
To learn more, go to the All About Birds Site and page down to the Explore More section. You’ll find links to information about dark and light plumage patterns, key field marks to watch for, the different parts of a bird, and birding the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Florida, an episode location.
All About Birds has the best online bird guide on the web!
Episode Three: Behavior
Summary of this episode from the All About Birds website:
Besides being fun, observing the way a bird behaves can provide critical clues to its identity. With stunning footage from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, Chris and Jessie show you different types of behaviors to watch for and how to interpret them.
Click here to see links relating to this episode, including the Macaulay Library, behavior clues in greater detail, and birding at Green Cay, an episode location.
Episode Four: Habitat
Here is a summary about Episode Four: Habitat from the All About Birds Website:
Inside this Episode
Join Jessie and Chris as they bird the marshes, cypress swamps, and nearby mangroves of Florida’s Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in pursuit of the elusive Limpkin.
You’ll learn how to employ your observations of habitat to help you determine the probability of finding birds in certain locations and to confirm the identity of the birds you see.
For links and more information, click here. Page down to Explore More to check out the Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge, great birding opportunities in Southern Florida, or to visit eBird for dynamic information on when and where to find birds.
All About Birds has the best online bird guide on the web!
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Click here for a CurrClick copywork book based on The Insect Folk. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles.
08 – The Shorthorned Grasshoppers
09 – The Longhorned Grasshoppers
11 – The Cricket-Like Grasshoppers
12 – The Cheery Cricket People
21 – The Well Dressed Lace Bug
25 – The Well Protected Stink Bug
Summary: Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden for Librivox)
Click here to preview or purchase Animal themed copywork and notebooking pages. Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School.
To read this book for yourself, click here.
To hear this book, click play in the box below, or click on the chapter titles in this post.
Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
More of Peter’s Long-Legged Cousins
Striped Chipmunk and his Cousins
Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher
A Fellow with a Thousand Spears
A Trader and a Handsome Fellow
Danny’s Northern Cousins and Nimbleheels
Three Little Redcoats and Some Others
Flitter the Bat and his Family
Spite the Marten and Pekan the Fisher
Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf
Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
Buster Bear Nearly Breaks Up School
Unc’ Billy and Old Mrs. Possum
Lightfoot, Blacktail and Forkhorn
Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof
Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat
Two Wonderful Mountain Climbers
Piggy and Hardshell
The Mammals of the Sea
Running time: 6 hours, 56 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below, or click on the chapter titles.
Note: I have not previewed this book for evolutionary content. Glancing through, I did see one reference to “millions of years” in chapter one. If this is a concern for you, please click “read this book yourself” to peruse its contents. This book does appear on some popular booklists, such as Ambleside Online.
Summary: I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science; a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairy-land is all that is beautiful, and full of poetry and imagination. But I thoroughly believe myself, and hope to prove to you, that science is full of beautiful pictures, of real poetry, and of wonder-working fairies.
(From the Introduction to The Fairyland of Science)
Lecture One: The Fairyland of Science: How to Enter it, How to Use it, and How to Enjoy it
Lecture Two: Sunbeams and the Work They Do
Lecture Three: The Aerial Ocean in Which We Live
Lecture Four: A Drop of Water on its Travels
Lecture Five: The Two Great Sculptors: Water and Ice
Lecture Six: The Voices of Nature and How We Hear Them
Lecture Seven: The Life of a Primrose
Lecture Eight: The History of a Piece of Coal
Lecture Nine: Bees in the Hive
Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.
Click here to see downloadable Leonardo da Vinci lapbooks, unit studies and more from CurrClick.
