Drawing a Blueprint
comfortably live to use their knowledge of bird
using tools like
migration and architecture
in them. Some
rulers and pro-
chose to design
tractors, showing their houses to design and build a better
what they would
birdhouse and provide a
to be hung in
add for their
place for neighborhood
trees (with the
designs. Since
they had recently
birds to enjoy as well.
addition of eye
screws and
been on a field trip to see migratory
wire), while others needed bases to
birds and had seen the film Winged
stand steadily on a fence post or table
Migration in science class, they were in a yard.
familiar with various types of birds, as
well as their habits and needs.
Construction
Some of the birdhouse designs
Using white glue, students each con-
proved to be quite lofty and had water- structed the basic birdhouse kits and
slides and jacuzzis reminiscent of the allowed them to dry thoroughly. The
hotels many of the students had stayed following class period, tacky glue
at on vacation. We discussed how
and glue guns (under teacher
their fantasies could be constructed
supervision) were used to add
with the materials available—mainly the additional wood pieces.
