Activities...
Welcome to the Activities section. There are a wide variety of exercises and worksheets to download, and you can contribute your own photographs, poems, stories and artwork.
Play the Greenshank Migration Game
Click here to play the Greenshank Migration Game.
There is also a range of activity sheets to download:
Word Searches
Try one of the four word searches, two are general ones about Greenshanks;
one easy and one more difficult. Migration is the topic for
the third and Ringing is the fourth and most difficult one:
Colouring in and dot-to-dot
If you like drawing and colouring, we have:
Worksheets
There are two worksheets with maps:
Ring the Changes
One of the most important parts of the project is marking the birds with coloured rings so they can be identified. It sounds easy, but there are a few tricky problems; try the Ring the Changes worksheets.
- Ring the Changes 1 is simple, but for good mathematicians or older people (School Year 7 or 8 or over)
- Ring the Changes 2 will be more of a challenge - although I'll bet some of you find it easy!
- Ring the Changes 3 is to help you work out where some of the birds have been.
Quiz
Everyone likes a quiz see how many you can score on this one:
Please Note: All the above documents require Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view them, you
can download this free software here.
For more information on birds in general look at http://www.abc.net.au/wing/community/edresources.htm
We would love to have contributions from you for this site - draw us a picture or cartoon and send it in to us, to add
to the Creative Arts section.
How about sending us your photographs,
poems, stories, or accounts of birdwatching.
See if you can make a link with other schools or birdwatchers on the migration path - write
a letter or email to other contributors.
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