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You will each choose a tool to represent your beak! AFTER you have chosen a beak, you will then have to choose the best environment for the beak you chose and be able to explain why.

Materials

-Plastic silverware

-Straws

-Location sheet with desert, jungle, woods, wetlands, coastal (ocean), mountains, and arctic shown

-1 Bird Identification Sheet for each group of students stating their beak shape and the foods they like

For this lesson...

We will compare and contrast adaptations displayed by birds (specifically their beaks) that enable them to survive in different environments, help them go on with their unique lifestyles, and especially how and what they can eat

Standards & Learning Outcomes

SC.7.L.15.In.2: Recognize that physical characteristics of living things are adapted to deal with the conditions of the environment, such as skin color or gills on a fish.

Bird Beak Buffet!

SC.7.L.15.Su.2: Recognize that common plants or animals have special features that enable them to live in their environment, such as a as a fish has gills so it can live underwater

Students will learn that an animal's physical attributes, such as a bird's beak, may provide an advantage for survival in one environment but not in another. Students will participate in modeling and investigating structure and function relationships.

Ever Changing Beaks!

Over time, as the environment changes, birds (like all animals) have had to adapt to survive!

Ask yourself these questions...

What if the birds never evolved and adapted?

Would the environment suffer?

Would other animals be affected?

Did you know... A birds beak can directly affect where they can survive and what they can eat?!

Would you survive?

-Where would you survive the best with the beak you had chosen?

-If you had chosen a different tool, could you still have survived in this same location?

-Which bird did you identify with based upon the beak you chose?

After answering these questions for yourself, you will now compose a short response to share with the class to explain your understanding

Clean Up & Presentations

One person from each group will put back plastic silverware, straws, and charts.

We will now begin sharing our findings!

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