Thursday, November 12, 2009

Kit Showcase: Dissect a Feather

"A Feather is a Letter From a Bird" -- So explore one!! Our feather dissection kit includes feathers, magnifiers, and feather diagrams to help students improve their obervation and diagramming skills. This kit allows an exploration of form and function, and after they've finished their investigation, you can encourage students to explain how it is that a bird can fly.

 


View the kit activity card and list of materials in the kit.

For those of you in the Pioneer and Leland programs, this activity ties in with the bird unit later in the year; for all, it's a great kit to encourage students to make detailed observations of part of our natural world.

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