Plants: Birds Nests

How Animals and People Use Plants

The children have explored the idea that people and animals use plants for food, particularly berries.

Are there other ways people and animals use plants?

By webbing their discussion and drawing arrows to make connections, the children thought about ways we use trees for building our homes and how animals, particularly birds, use trees to build their nests. 

They examined some real nests and looked at the materials birds used to build them and we watched a video of a hummingbird building a nest.

The children were ready to build a nest of their own!

It didn't take long for the children to notice that their nests looked different than each others. This was an opportunity to practice open mindedness; there is more than one way to build a nest. In nature different birds build different kinds of nests and our little group of "birds" built a diverse collection of nests!