Your students work for a nature preserve that is a rest stop for hummingbirds during migration seasons. Summers have been getting hotter and they’ve noticed that the flowers are blooming earlier – they wilt and die before the hummingbirds arrive. Their job is to design a model for their new feeding station.
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Use this guide to help your students explore their wildlife biologist research project.
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Provide this lab notebook for students to record their observations and reflections during their science explorations.
Materials needed
- Kid safe scissors
- Construction paper, multiple colors
- Lightweight cardboard sheets
- Paper cups, 8-12 oz.
- Plastic condiment cups, 2 oz.
- Masking tape
- Yarn
Additional resources
Use the career card as a visual facilitation aid, so students can see what a Wildlife Biologist might look like.
Nature’s Notebook: Collect data for a citizen science project to help scientists understand how animal behavior and life cycles are changing.
iNaturalist: Identify animals in your environment and share your observations with naturalists around the world.