Activities
Charting eggs ele
All about Birds ele/ms
Frayer Model Birds - doc. | pdf
Collecting data ele/ms
Nest Box Log ele/ms/hs
Life Cycles ele/ms
Mapping Birds ele/ms/hs
Variables ele/ms/hs
Feather Facts ms/hs
Scientific Thinking ele/ms/hs
Systems & Controls ms/hs
Science Journal Entry ms/hs
Make Puzzle ele/ms/hs
Ecology Vocabulary ms/hs
Classification ms/hs
Other Nestbox residents:
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Bluebirds Project Controls and Systems Exercise |
All animals live in and adapt to systems. They also live with many controls. Examples: Highways and roads are a system that is controlled by signs and traffic lights. A Community Hospitial is a system controlled by patients, doctors & nurses, administrators, government agencies and insurance companies. |
Identify some of the systems that bluebirds live within.
Which system controls impact bluebirds positively?
Which system controls impact bluebirds negatively?
Are bluebirds adapting successfully to changes that are occurring to the systems in which they live?
What traits or behaviors of bluebirds help them survive in a changing system?
Give a bluebird some good survival advice.
How could they do a better job dealing with the systems in which they live?
Further Explorations:
Considering Systems and Controls
BirdSleuth: Investigating Evidence - free materials from Cornell University
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