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| Ducks and Water Birds |
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About the Site
Ducks Unlimited publishes this Web site. It reflects their mission to protect waterfowl and enhance, restore, and manage wetlands and associated uplands. The site contains current news, articles, photographs, and conservation information. Children will enjoy viewing closeup photographs of waterfowl and listening to audio clips of their calls. You may wish to preview the site to select what you will show and describe to children. For example, you might read them only the height, weight, and description for five or six birds. If time permits, direct children to the Puddler for Kids area to print and color a picture. Although the coloring page is accessible to all, some Puddler for Kids features require a subscription.
What to Do
Click American Widgeon. Invite students to view the photographs as you describe the bird. Point out that the male and female birds have different colors and markings. Explore five or six other waterfowl in the same manner. If time permits, have children click Education at the top of the screen. Direct them to click Puddler for Kids and Color It. Print the waterfowl pictures and distribute to children for coloring.
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About the Site
Enchanted Learning provides online learning materials intended to make learning enjoyable for young students.
Lesson Objectives
Students will use the Internet to learn about ducks. Students will print out a diagram of a duck. Students will color a diagram of a duck.
Suggested Additional Activities
Use the printout to identify the various parts of a duck. In particular, make sure that the students know about the duck’s webbed feet, feathers, and bill. Find books featuring ducks as main characters. Read these to the class.
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| Ducks and Water Birds |
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About the Site
All About Ducks for Kids is a Web site sponsored by KiddyHouse.com, an online resource for kids, teachers, and parents. The site contains drawings, photographs, simple facts about ducks, as well as links to additional clip art, worksheets, and more.
What to Do
Direct children to scroll down the page as you point out the photographs and read the facts. Be sure to tell children that the male duck is called a drake and the female duck is called a hen. If your computers have sound, help children find and click quacking (in the fourth section) to hear the sound.
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About the Site
The Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center presents Ducks at a Distance: A Waterfowl Identification Guide, by Bob Hines, Department of the Interior, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It contains large clear pictures of ducks in flight and closeups of the wings. The differences between male and female wing structure and coloring are illustrated.
What to Do
Remind children of the meaning of the words drake (male) and hen (female). Then introduce this page which shows the Shoveler Duck. You may want to read some facts to the class. Next have children examine the pictures closely to compare the colors and shapes of the head, neck, body, tail, and beak. Have children explain the differences that they observe. Another duck picture that offers clear differences is the Puddle Duck. At the bottom of the page, click Back to Contents and then Puddle Duck.
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| Moving and Packing |
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About the Site
REMAX.com provides moving advice for kids. The site features 26 tips; each is accompanied by a movie.
Lesson Objectives
Students will use the Internet to learn about moving. Students will watch a movie about moving. Students will draw themselves packing their toys.
Suggested Additional Activities
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About the Site
This Web page, sponsored by Cendant Mobility, an organization that provides mobility services to businesses, offers several activities to make moving with children easier. You can print the activity pages to have children follow a maze, make moving box labels, or draw their new home. Have blunt scissors and paste available so children can complete the activity in which they "decorate" their new room.
What to Do
Discuss what children would put in a new room. Scroll down and show the children each piece of furniture in Draw Your Own Room. Print the page and have students cut out and color the furniture. Encourage children to decorate their own room by pasting the pieces where they wish.
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