These Duke Farms Eagle Cam lesson plans can be adapted for distance learning:
Build a Raptor (bird of prey)
Grade 5
Developed by Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey
Goal: Provide students with a better understanding of number and diversity of birds around the world, with a focus on raptors, and the adaptations that help raptors survive and thrive.
Core Curriculum Content Standards: 5.1.D, 5.3.A, 5.3.B, 5.3.C, 5.3.D, 5.3.E
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Shrinking Habitat
Grade 5
Developed by Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey
Goal: To help students to define habitat as it relates to people and animals, describe the effect of human development on plants and animals in the region, evaluate the importance of suitable habitat for wildlife, recognize that the loss of habitat is a critical problem affecting wildlife today.
Core Curriculum Content Standards: 5.1.D, 5.3.A, 5.3.B, 5.3.C, 5.3.D, 5.3.E
Deadly Links
Grade 5
Developed by Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey
Goal: Provide students with examples of ways in which pesticides enter food chains and describe the consequences.
Core Curriculum Content Standards: 5.1.D, 5.3.A, 5.3.B, 5.3.C, 5.3.D