Woodpeckers Lesson Plans

1. Investigative Case - "European Starlings and Woodpeckers"
SERC Logo Skip to main contentSkip to navigation > > Investigative Case - "European Starlings and Woodpeckers" Explore Teaching Examples Provide Feedback Investigative Case - "European Starlings and Woopeckers" Developed for Lifelines Online by Arthur G. Nonhof. (www.bioquest.org/lifelines/) This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project Summary Students will...

2. The Isle of Tam « Terrain for Schools Curriculum Guide, Spring 2001 « Ecology Center
...mple of secondary succession on your school grounds or in your neighborhood? Succession Graph Oak as Keystone: Background, Graph and Questions At least 30 species of birds consume acorns. Nearly one-third of the yearly diet of wood ducks, wild turkeys, band-tailed pigeons, and jays is acorns. Acorn woodpeckers rely on them for over half their food. Many insectivore birds, such as bushtits, wrens, and warblers, forage through oak leaves, twigs, and branches to dine on such insects as the California oak moth, 200 kinds of gall wasps, whiteflies, aphids, several kinds of leafhoppers, filbertworm moth, and as...

3. Georgia-Pacific - Educational in Nature - Birds & Forests
...g seeds. Georgia-Pacific 3 Georgia-Pacific C. A hawk s beak is heavy and curved for Georgia-Pacific tearing meat from bones. Georgia-Pacific 4 Georgia-Pacific D. A warbler s beak is sharp and pointed Georgia-Pacific for picking insects from plants. Georgia-Pacific 5 Georgia-Pacific E. Climbers like woodpeckers have Georgia-Pacific claws for gripping the sides of trees. Georgia-Pacific 6 Georgia-Pacific F. Birds of prey have feet with sharp Georgia-Pacific talons for capturing their food. Georgia-Pacific 7 Georgia-Pacific G. A woodpecker s beak is strong and Georgia-Pacific long for chiseling holes in tree...

4. Map Me a Paragraph!
...ive in deserts. Certain others, including seals and whales, swim in the oceans. · Paragraph Two: (copy for each student) Animals use their tails in many ways. The tails of frogs serve to move them and to steer them. Squirrels use their tails to keep their balance when they are leaping and climbing. Woodpeckers prop themselves up with their tails. Opossums grasp things with their tails. · chalkboard, chalk · blank map for each student center circle with 4 spokes coming off of it and a square at the end of each spoke · pencil for each student · overhead copy of Paragraph One, overhead pens to model how to...

5. BC Education - Resource Sciences 11 and 12: Forests - Animals
...lude information on the social and economic value of the animals. As an extension, students could predict future scenarios for their chosen animals. As a class, brainstorm animal species in the local region. Chart the effects of their habitation and use of the forest (e.g., beavers "ringing" trees; woodpeckers eating insect larvae). Debrief by discussing how different perspectives on forest use change the way we perceive these animals' effects on the forest. Conduct a field trip to a forest or hatchery to identify birds, fish, mammals, and insects that are native to British Columbia's forests and lakes, a...

6. Teacher's guide - Lesson
...species of insects and other invertebrates (animals without backbones) feed on and live in dead trees. They bore holes in these trees to build their nests. These tiny animals provide food for many other larger animals. But that's just the beginning of the story. So Do Birds. Many birds, especially woodpeckers, love to feed on the insects that live in dead trees. These birds feed on insects by making holes that insects have bored larger. They eat the insects and sometimes they make the holes so large that they move into them themselves. When they leave the holes, other animals move in, including squirrels...

7. Evergreen - Study of a Rotting Log
...ather or fire. As beetles burrow under the bark, their tunnels permit air, moisture and fungal spores to enter the tree. Fungal hyphae penetrate the wood cells and live off the stored starch. In turn, the fungi provide food for some bacteria, slugs and insect larvae. Invading carpenter ants attract woodpeckers. Eventually, the weakened tree falls. Increased moisture levels from the damp ground speed up the rate of decay of the bark. The moist conditions in turn attract salamanders, centipedes and various scavengers and support the growth of mosses, ferns and other plants. Wood-boring insects inhabit the d...

8. For the Birds
...odifications to the classroom. Begin by administering pretest baseline picture checklist. Introduce a featured bird of the week for several weeks. Feature the birds most commonly seen at feeders in your area (house sparrows, goldfinches, Mexican house finches, chickadees, blue jays, mourning doves, woodpeckers, etc.). Instruct students about the six key features used to identify birds (color, size, shape, habits, flight and song). Emphasize color, size and shape, which includes shape of beak and shape of tail. Provide students with observation forms, binoculars (optional), field guides, and time to make o...

9. Biomes: Forests & Seeds
...ts to look at the list and decide with type each consumer is. 4. Next, define a food web, which is a diagram showing how organisms in an ecosystem depend on one another to obtain nutrients and energy. Example: An oak tree food web shows that caterpillars eat the tree's leaves; beetles eat the bark; woodpeckers eat beetles; jays and squirrels eat the acorns; and the tree makes its own food with photosynthesis. 5. Tell students that they will make food webs for the temperate forest ecosystem in northern Japan. Temperate climates have four distinct seasons, and the plants and animals there must adapt to the...

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...to the deer. We can't, however, clear cut more than ten 25-acre sections in any one year because this would provide too much food. The deer population might increase too much and damage the forest by feeding on valuable young timber trees. The eastern part of this forest is an excellent habitat for woodpeckers. The old forests, such as the Douglas fir and lodgepole pine stands in that area, contain standing dead trees that the woodpeckers need for building nests and finding insects to eat. It is important to maintain part of these older stands to keep some of the rotting trees there for the woodpeckers an...