Bird Research

Have you heard of the book, Significant Studies for Second Grade?  It is on my top ten professional book list!  The first half of the book is reading investigations and the second half is writing.  The non-fiction reading and writing work are fantastic and so practical!  We have been studying non-fiction text features and how to read non-fiction, so today we started collecting information about our bird, using books and the internet.  

 
Last week, I had every student pick a bird they were interested in learning more about.   Everyone needed to choose a different bird, so when we put all the work together, we will have a book of 27 different birds.  





I checked out one of our mobile lab carts and students went to www.allaboutbirds.org to find information about their bird.  Once we found information we needed we recorded it on our data sheet.  Click here for a link to the page we used to record data.  

Carrying our laptops like lunch trays!

 

And returning them carefully to the cart.

Happy Wednesday,