Children investigate the classification of living things while exploring the physical attributes of birds.

1. It’s All About Birds Use various types of bird beaks, body types, feet and your imagination to create your own bird species.

2. What’s for Dinner? Use models of a variety of beaks to discover how shape affects function, and how function determines where a bird can live.

3. Birds of a Feather Investigate the parts of a feather, and observe the differences between various types of feathers.

4. A Dirty Job Use an oil-covered feather to investigate an example of a challenge created when the needs of human populations place the natural environment at risk.