Art, Design, and Biology

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.01.12

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background Knowledge & Content Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Appendix and Implemented District Standards
  8. Notes

Analyzing Avian Adaptations through Art

Courtney White

Published September 2025

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Annotated Bibliography

Alten, Michelle. "Backyard birding: a how-to approach for kids." Animals, May-June 1998, 20+. Gale Academic OneFile (accessed July 11, 2025). https://link-gale-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A20601077/AONE?u=29002&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=1ca7bc9b.

This resource gives examples of ways that teachers can help kids in interacting with birds.

Hodgkins, Fran. 2007. How People Learned to Fly. New York: Harper Collins.

This is a text from a previous unit that begins with telling students that people became interested in flight after observing and studying birds.

Petzoldt, Molly. “Using Art to Get Kids into and Doing Science.” Science Scope 31, no. 6 (2008): 42–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43183774.

This resource gives some guidelines for ways to use art to help kids understand the intersection between art and science.

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