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Birding and Beyond Fall 2020
Students and teachers must be able to readily switch to online lessons at any point in the semester in order to register for classes. All students must complete a project for these classes.
Sherry Manison 7sherrym@gmail.com # 269-487-7074 (please leave message if I don’t recognize your number and pick up! -- might be best to email first)
Location -- Love Creek is home base, but will be going to different locations
Format: In person with some virtual meetings
If face-to-face: Thursdays 9:00 - 11:00 AM
If online: Thursdays 3:00 - 4:00 PM (this can be adjusted, if necessary)
Grades K-12 Parents are requested to accompany pre-teen children.
Birding and Beyond is a great introduction to the world of nature! Our main focus will be on birds, but we will also notice other flora and fauna around us. Students will learn to be more aware of the birds around them, particularly around their own homes. We will learn to recognize birds in the wild using their common names, and develop a familiarity with their habits and habitats, and with bird families, identifying features of birds, and some basic bird anatomy. We will practice tuning in to bird sounds, recognizing that learning the songs of birds can help us identify them. Each semester that the class is taught we will highlight another area of birds and birding (such as feathers, beaks and bills, migration patterns, bird songs, etc.).
Studying birds and being outside to observe them will open doors for other nature areas. During each semester we will have a class or two on other aspects of nature, such as frogs, flowers, ecology, etc.
Birds are more active in the mornings and evenings. Therefore, we will meet from 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. on nine Thursdays during the semester, if face-to-face. If online, Thursday mornings can be used for each family group to go birding on their own for 1-2 hours, and we will meet in the afternoon. Love Creek will be our face-to-face home base and the site of our first class, but we will also go birding at different locations and habitats around the county.
Note: If we are face-to-face, we will meet formally for a short time each class, and then use the remaining class time to look for birds in the woods, prairie, beach, swamp, and other habitats. If we are online, we will meet for up to an hour on Zoom. Each family group will be asked to go to suggested spots around the county on their own for one-two hours per class. We will then use part of our class time to report which birds (or other flora and fauna) we have seen. We may include a combination of face-to-face and online classes.
Class content will be adjusted according to the level and interest of the students.
Required Materials: Bring your own binoculars (8x42 or 10x42 are most common), and dress for the outdoors, including bug spray. A field guide is handy, but not required. A Michigan recreational passport is recommended, as we will be going to Warren Dunes.
Syllabus
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Tom Hurst
Students and teachers must be able to readily switch to online lessons at any point in the semester in order to register for classes. All students must complete a project for these classes.
Sherry Manison 7sherrym@gmail.com # 269-487-7074 (please leave message if I don’t recognize your number and pick up! -- might be best to email first)
Location -- Love Creek is home base, but will be going to different locations
Format: In person with some virtual meetings
If face-to-face: Thursdays 9:00 - 11:00 AM
If online: Thursdays 3:00 - 4:00 PM (this can be adjusted, if necessary)
Grades K-12 Parents are requested to accompany pre-teen children.
Birding and Beyond is a great introduction to the world of nature! Our main focus will be on birds, but we will also notice other flora and fauna around us. Students will learn to be more aware of the birds around them, particularly around their own homes. We will learn to recognize birds in the wild using their common names, and develop a familiarity with their habits and habitats, and with bird families, identifying features of birds, and some basic bird anatomy. We will practice tuning in to bird sounds, recognizing that learning the songs of birds can help us identify them. Each semester that the class is taught we will highlight another area of birds and birding (such as feathers, beaks and bills, migration patterns, bird songs, etc.).
Studying birds and being outside to observe them will open doors for other nature areas. During each semester we will have a class or two on other aspects of nature, such as frogs, flowers, ecology, etc.
Birds are more active in the mornings and evenings. Therefore, we will meet from 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. on nine Thursdays during the semester, if face-to-face. If online, Thursday mornings can be used for each family group to go birding on their own for 1-2 hours, and we will meet in the afternoon. Love Creek will be our face-to-face home base and the site of our first class, but we will also go birding at different locations and habitats around the county.
Note: If we are face-to-face, we will meet formally for a short time each class, and then use the remaining class time to look for birds in the woods, prairie, beach, swamp, and other habitats. If we are online, we will meet for up to an hour on Zoom. Each family group will be asked to go to suggested spots around the county on their own for one-two hours per class. We will then use part of our class time to report which birds (or other flora and fauna) we have seen. We may include a combination of face-to-face and online classes.
Class content will be adjusted according to the level and interest of the students.
Required Materials: Bring your own binoculars (8x42 or 10x42 are most common), and dress for the outdoors, including bug spray. A field guide is handy, but not required. A Michigan recreational passport is recommended, as we will be going to Warren Dunes.
Syllabus
*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.
Teacher of Record: Tom Hurst