Blackbirds Lesson Plans

1. Fairy Tale Expansion
...Arts activities. The following activities are designed to give middle school students practice with the aspects of purpose, voice, and audience in their writing. Directions: 1. Select a nursery rhyme, such as "Sing a Song of Sixpence." Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish, To set before the king? The king was in the counting house, Counting out his money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread and honey. The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; When along came...

2. Blackbird Pie Lesson Plan
Crayola Submit Register for FREE! Join the Crayola community today. Blackbird Pie Why Blackbirds are popping from this pie! Find out how Blackbeard's pirates are connected with the traditional rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." Steps 1. Read the traditional nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." What do you think the message is of this rhyme? Research the history of nursery rhymes, perhaps to c...

3. Journey North Spring, 2000
...Journey North Report Your Sightings Report Your Migrations Signs of Spring Sightings How to Use Bald Eagle Journey North Hummingbird How to Use Loon Mystery Class (Photoperiod) Journey North Manatee Monarch Butterfly Tulips Search Journey Other Signs of Spring North Oriole Search Journey Red-Winged Blackbirds North + Earthworms Robin + Frogs Swallows + Ice-Out Whooping Crane + Leaf-Out Humpback Whales + Maple Sugaring JNorth Home Page Right Whales Gray Whales Return to Home Page A/CPB Home A/CPB "Journey North News" Calendar Also Underway Unpave the Way Phenology Data Exchange for Wildlife Journey North...

4. Zeros
SCORE Mathematics Standards Connections Zeros and Blackbirds Francie Caraker Introduction: Do you yearn to be high in the sky and far far away? This math lesson allows students to convert kilometers to miles and calculate the range that historical aircraft can travel. Prior Knowledge: Students will need to know how to multiply with decimals. Grade Levels: 5 O...

5. Bubble and Squeak
...g. Make Anzac cookies or other types of cookie. General discussions pertaining to the changes that have occurred to the ingredients and the final product. Procedural writing. Making of cookies. Illustrations and labeling of different pieces of equipment and ingredients. Week 4: Read Four and twenty blackbirds. Dramatization. Make tarts. Read Stone Soup. Make soup, Procedural writing of soup. Mural Four and Twenty blackbirds. Labeling. Different types of flour and bread. Comments: The children really enjoyed this unit. Many children do not have the opportunity to cook. It gave us many opportunities to rea...

6. Kindergarten Language Lesson 10
...d in some of the suggested chants. Procedures/ 1.)1. Select a nursery rhyme/chant Activities: to be used by students in creating a finger play. 2.)2. Have students assist in adding finger motions to create a finger play. Suggested Finger Plays: "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" "Open, Shut Them" "Two Little Blackbirds" 3.)3. Discuss the patterns found in each nursery rhyme or chant. 4.)4. Ask students to select another rhyme or chant and use it to create an additional finger play. Attachments: Some files will display in a new window. Others will prompt you to download. Assessment AHSGE I-3, I-4 Strategies: Extens...

7. Evergreen - Don't Leaf Out Without Me!
...g scale as a self-evaluation tool. Enrichment and Extension Activities Journey North schools throughout North America track several signs of spring. Choose one or more of the following and report to Journey North - ice out on your local lake, river, or pond; first frog singing; return of red-winged blackbirds; red emperor tulips blooming; maple syrup run. Check out the web site and send in your data. Connections to the Outdoor Environment Searching for signs of spring can only be done outside - being outside helps us become more in tune with our surroundings. Raising our awareness of seasonal changes hel...

8. 12 Days of Christmas Lesson Plan
...d the Magi?s arrival bearing gifts? Do you think it might have started as a memory game like "I Packed My Bag," where you remember what other players packed and then add your own new verse? 2. Some historians think that some of today?s song words aren?t the original ones. Colly bird (black as coal, blackbirds) has become calling birds, and five golden rings (meaning ring-necked birds such as pheasants) now are assumed to be circles that go around fingers. The original words meant that the first seven gifts were all birds! Whatever its origins, the sentiment of giving gifts to your true love around this s...

9. Hinterland Who's Who - Climate Watch
...t that inhabit lakes, rivers, estuaries, and coastal zones are highly vulnerable to fluctuations in temperatures and water levels. + Trees indicate changes in summer temperatures through varying widths and densities of annual growth rings formed throughout their lives. + American robins, red-winged blackbirds, and other migratory birds are harbingers of spring and seasonal shifts because their arrival times on breeding grounds are determined by climatic conditions. + Dwarf birch, white spruce, green alder, and other shrubs spreading over the tundra suggest a northward shift in vegetative zones. + Turtles...

10. Investigative Case - "European Starlings and Woodpeckers"
...pairs of Downy Woodpeckers and none others. However species of other birds have remained at carrying capacity with the non-endemic European Starling increasing. News Release: September 1999 Feedlot owners complain of grain loss to birds Local feedlot owners have noted a sharp increase in numbers of blackbirds among their cattle pens. While blackbird flocks are a common occurrence within feedlots due to the availability of feed, the large late summer increase has caught managers off guard. Says Ray Crockett of Poky Feeders; "In the past we just put up with them and accepted the grain loss but this year we...