Birds of the Air!

Find an enormous list of Bible Verses about Birds at Bible Gateway.

Birds of the Bible Puzzle for Kids

Genesis 1:20-23 ~ And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day.

Psalm 104:12 ~ The birds of the air nest by the waters; they sing among the branches.

Matthew 6:25-27 ~ "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Bird Photo

At my homeschool blog J.O.Y. Christian School, you will find an Animal Unit ~ I created these when my children were doing a unit on mammals in 2009, but several of the items may be used when studying birds, also. (Several other resources for mammals are also there!)

Games: Animal Picture & Word Cards, Animal Parts of Speech Game, Alphabet Animal Sort Game, Animal Short & Long Vowel Game, Animal Syllable Sort Game, Compound Word Animals File Folder Game, Animal Vocabulary Cards
Scientific Classification Labels: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Lapbook Pieces: 5 Kingdoms of Animals, What is a Vertebrate & Invertebrate? Mini Books, Classes of Invertebrates Mini Book, Classes of Vertebrates Mini Book, Classification Accordion Mini Books, Mammal Characteristics (I'll probably create a bird one like this.).
Notebook / Worksheet Pages: Dividers - Animal Kingdom, Sub-Kingdoms Vertebrate & Invertebrate, Phylum Chordates, Class Mammalia, Animal Notebook Pages, Animal Vocabulary Sheets, God's Amazing Animals
Charts: Classification of Living Things Charts, Animal Line-Up Chart
Worksheets: Rhyme, Unscramble, Spell, & Write
Links: Classification Power Points, Creation Resources, Noah Resources

God's Animals Unit is a huge resource bank of units, lessons, materials of all sorts about almost every type of animal that I collected and posted in early 2009. The Bird Section has links to all sorts of kid friendly materials and lessons for kids about birds. A special section on penguins is also listed.

Bird Activities for Children at DLTK have some awesome crafts, coloring pages, mini-books, mazes, songs and rhymes, and more!

All About Birds! at KidZone is fun and easy to read for elementary children. It groups birds into similar categories and contains a few puzzles in between! Try two science experiments related to birds - "soft shelled eggs" and "knotted bones".

The articles Going to the Birds: Planning Your Study and Gathering Your Resources by Lynda Ackert have some great ideas to get you started on a bird study!

Bird Information Page at Biodiversity.

Educational Bird Links around the Web!

Sandpiper Photo

All About Birds from Enchanted Learning contains Bird Printouts, Bird Extremes, Bird Fossils (evolution material is presented, but you may edit how you see fit), Early Birds, Bird Watching, Birds as Symbols, Birds & People, Bird Jokes, Bird Crafts, and Classroom Activities! It has some really cool stuff to study, plus many worksheets and mini-books to use for various ways! Awesome resource!

Sandhill Cranes Photo

If you really enjoy unit studies, lapbooks, and notebooks, the best place to find free quality ones is without a doubt Homeschool Share! All of the units and materials are written and created by homeschool educators who want to share them with students and teachers everywhere. They include literature (fiction and non-fiction) along with several other curriculum areas. They may be used in whole or in part. Sometimes we have just pulled out one or two things from a unit that fit our studies best. New ones are added a few times a year. Units for all kinds of animals are here, but the ones particularly for birds are:
~ Backyard Birds
~ Bald Eagles
~ Birds of Prey
~ Chickens
~ Ducks
~ Flamingos
~ Hummingbirds
~ Ostriches
~ Parrots
~ Seabirds
~ Storks
~ Animal Classification (Bird Characteristics)
~ Desert Animals (Hawks, Roadrunners)
~ Nocturnal Animals (Owls)
~ Polar Animals (Penguins)

ABC Teach has all sorts of bird activities for kids about birds that may be used to supplement your bird unit! These printout may be used in numerous fun ways! You will find: notebook pages, mini shape books, poem forms, border pages, writing prompts and forms, coloring pages, bookmarks, reading comprehension worksheets, crafts, research cards, KWL forms, report pages, mazes, signs, diagrams and organizers, word puzzles, and word searches! Cool stuff!

More cool resources!
~ Lapbook Lessons is another place that has wonderful resources! You have to become a member to use the materials, but it is free! From this page scroll down and click on animals to take you to an owl and a penguin lapbook.
~ Four pages of mini books (3 on each - total of 12 mini books) and bald eagle notebooking pages may be found at Notebook Learning!
~ Click on "Book List" then "Birds" to find 7 free downloadable books with activities for some at Learning Island.
~ A cute Bird Unit for PreS - 1st is at Alphabet Soup.
~ Find Bird Watching & Bird Identification Charts at Homeschool Helper!
~ Science and Bird Report Forms from Highland Heritage!
~ Various Worksheets about birds at Homeschool Launch!
~ *You may join the Notebooking2Learn Group for free! Jessica has some wonderful bird lapbook pieces listed under "Files - Science - Zoology 1 - Chapters 1-6"!
~ Several Free Bird Notebook Pages are located at Debra's Notebooking Pages! Her materials are so pretty!
~ *Jeannie FulBright has created some beautiful notebook pages that coordinate with her "Exploring Creation" series of science books. Click on the "Flying Creatures" book to download this free 41 page resource!!
~ There are numerous Yahoo Notebooking Groups that share fantastic resources. They are all free, but you have to join the group. I have several of the groups listed on this link.
~ Bird Cards (I would use these to create games!), Colorful Bird Posters (posters, lapbook covers, or shrink to make flashcards), and Bird Alphabet Cards (wouldn't these be cute in creating a bird alphabet book?) ~ All these resources are from Sparkle Box for free download.

~ This free "Birds of a Feather" font would be fun to make games, flashcards, worksheets, and more!

~ Notebooking Pages has some amazing pages for people to use in the nature studies. Titles for birds sets include: All About Birds - Basic Study, Birds of the World, North American Birds, and Tropical Birds Notebooking Pages! These sets may be purchased separately or as a combo set. Check under 'Free Resources" for several beautiful bird page samples.

Mallard Photo

What do birds do throughout the year?
~ "You may think that all birds do spring, summer, and fall is just get food and eat it, but they actually do different things than that.
~ In spring they build their nests and lay eggs. There is lots of insects for them to eat
~ In summer the eggs hatch. The mother and the father feed the babies. They get food like worms, bugs, different types of bugs, and beetles.
They might find some bees, but they sting, so I don't think they would like those! They molt, too. (They lose feathers and grow new ones!)
~ Some birds store away food in the fall so they don't have to in the winter when it is too late.
~ Some birds migrate In winter and some stay. Migrate means to go from one place to another when it gets cold to a warm place."

3-D Colorful Birds Decorations

Page 1 ~ Birds of the Air!: Main Page

Page 2 ~ Bird Facts: Morphology, Anatomy, Flight, Eggs, Habitats, & More

Page 3 ~ Bird Types: Backyard Birds, Bluebirds, Cardinals, Crows, Eagles, Hawks, Hummingbirds, Owls, Penguins, Robins, Sea Birds, Turkeys, and Water Fowl!

Dear Giant Squids of Squidoo ~ Thank you my friends for awarding me the lovely purple star on this page on April 1, 2010! ~ Pamela :-D

"All birds have beaks."

Do all birds have the same kind of beak?
"No! Some are short, some are long, some have something like a tooth.
Some are large, some are small on birds. Bird beaks are for birds to eat with."

Tell me about the different kinds of beaks.
"A pelican's beak just looks normal before it is filled up. It looks like there is a flap of skin under it. Then when its beak gets filled, the flap of skin works like a bucket. The flap of skin gets big and it's long.

Meat tearer's beaks have something that looks like a tooth at the front of the beak. They use it for tearing apart meats and stuff like that.

Hummingbird's beaks are like straws. See, like they put their beaks into the flower and (sucking sounds). That's how they use their beaks.

Ducks and platypuses have water strainer beaks. Water strainer beaks are like strainers that you have. You know like when ducks put their beaks under water and just their feet stick out at the surface, that's when they get their food. They open their mouth and they close their mouth. Their head goes up and the water has small plants and animals that they like to eat. Then the water gets drained out and the little animals and plants get eaten by the duck.

Cardinals are seed crackers. They eat hard seeds. Their beaks are hard but strong. They use their beaks to crack hard seeds.

An insect picker picks bugs off of bark and leaves. Sometimes they fly down and pick bugs in the air."

Awesome Animals: Beastly Birds & Bats: "Which bird coughs up pellets packed with bones, fur, and claws? Which feathery creature is nicknamed "stinker" because of its smelly spit? Which flying animal eats about 250 bees a day? Find out as you uncover the bizarre behavior and horrid habits of the world's most unusual creatures. This book is packed full of foul facts along with detailed photos that bring you too close for comfort to beastly birds and bats! A craft activity shows you how to make your own eerie vampire bat! For ages 8 & up."

What are baby birds like?
"Baby birds hatch from eggs that mother birds lay and how they hatch is with an egg tooth. Once they don't need the egg tooth, they loose it. It is at the tip of the beak. Some baby birds are born with their feathers and their eyes open! The ones with feathers are down feathers and they're very soft to touch. Some baby birds are born with their eyes closed and no feathers. They're naked!" - Words of an 8 year old!

Page 1 ~ Birds of the Air!: Main Page

Page 2 ~ Bird Facts: Morphology, Anatomy, Flight, Eggs, Habitats, & More

Page 3 ~ Bird Types: Backyard Birds, Bluebirds, Cardinals, Crows, Eagles, Hawks, Hummingbirds, Owls, Penguins, Robins, Sea Birds, Turkeys, and Water Fowl!

Peacock Photo

We studied penguins thoroughly two years ago as part of an ocean unit we completed, so we did not do much with them this time. But, for anyone who may want to study these "cool" birds, here are some of the resources we used. (I will add pictures when I have time to pull our scrapbook off the shelf and photograph them!)

~ The Penguin Unit at Enchanted Learning has numerous printout pages, diagrams, mini informational books, quizzes, labeling pages, reading comprehension, and other activities that are fantastic for learning! They make great pages for notebooks and lapbooks, also!
~ Penguin Teacher Guides from Sea World & Busch Gardens. There are tow guides K-3, and 4-8 that are packed full of activities for a complete unit on its own. Lesson plans with curriculum connections to many subjects are contained along with flashcards, vocabulary, and printable maps and other items.
~ There is an adorable Penguin Lapbook Unit at Lapbook Lesson from Valerie! It includes 17 mini books, a cover, and a video to help with the book. Another wonderful free Penguin Lapbook is available from Angela Frampton, also.
~ Ami Brainard (Homeschool Share Creator) created a wonderful multi-curricular unit study and lapbook based around the book Mr. Popper's Penguins. Pictures may be found at her blog, Walking by the Way. A few other penguin mini-books are found within the Polar Animal lapbook at Homeschool Share. Another mini unit for Mr. Popper's Penguins may be found at Homeschool Helper.
~ All About Penguins news article.

Penguins Set (6 bks): "Did you know that penguins can sleep while floating in the ocean? Did you know that some penguins live to be 25 years old? Did you know that a penguin's beak is specialized to catch its favorite food? After reading this book, your students will know all about penguins--where they live, how they grow and learn, what they eat, and the dangers they face."