We decided to use this exciting event to address the 1st grade science, writing, and art standards.
The CA State First Grade Content Standards require students to know that:
1. Animals inhabit different environments and have external features that help them thrive.
2. Animals eat plants or other animals for food.
3. We can tell what animals eat from the shapes of their teeth.
Having some close up pictures of this hawk enabled us to look it up on the internet using a site called What Bird. When you go to the site it asks you a set of questions, such as what the bird looks like and where you saw it, and it eventually helps you determine the exact species of bird. How cool is that?
Once we knew it was a Red-Tailed hawk, we "googled" that term and found a great site on National Geographic that has a bunch of videos, photos, and interesting facts. The video was incredible and the kids' jaws dropped. It showed a battle between a Red-Tailed hawk and a Western Diamond Back Rattlesnake! Click here to watch it. Books are great but seeing a video on a large LCD screen narrated with quality facts and information ratchets up student engagement and learning.
We decided to make a vocabulary list of terms that we'd be using in our work.
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