A bird unit study can be a great zoology unit for schools and homeschools at any time of the year. Of course, many study birds in the spring and before Easter, a natural time to study eggs. But whenever you choose to study birds, there are lots of amazing Montessori-inspired bird resources available!
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Montessori-Inspired Bird Printables and Resources
There are so many printables and activities available now for a bird unit! Look for the lists of free printables in the posts with free printables in this section. You’ll find lots and lots of free resources there!
Free Turkey Printables and Montessori-Inspired Turkey Activities
Free Penguin Printables and Montessori-Inspired Penguin Activities
Montessori-Inspired Owl Unit with Free Printables and Activities
Free Nest Printables and Montessori-Inspired Nest Activities
Free Duckling Printables and Montessori-Inspired Duckling Activities
Free Backyard Bird Printables and Montessori-Inspired Backyard Bird Activities
Bird Unit Syllabus from Every Star Is Different (very helpful in putting together a bird unit)
Montessori Bird Printables from Teachers Pay Teachers
Free Bird Sounds, Songs, and Rhymes for Circle Time
How to Discover the Joy of Birdwatching with Kids
Montessori Bird Materials on Etsy
Bird Materials from Montessori Services
Bird Studies from Tanglewood Hollow
Montessori-Inspired Bird Activities
Montessori-Inspired Easter Activities – includes lots of Easter egg activities (my roundup post)
Free Easter Egg Printables and Montessori-Inspired Easter Egg Activities
Now I Know My ABCs ~ Ff is for Feathers by Maureen from Spell Outloud at Totally Tots
Montessori Zoology – Bird Unit for Preschool from Little Montessori House
Montessori-Inspired Activities for a Bird Unit
- Bird Posts at Totally Tots, including Bird Sensory Tub by Cindy from Along the Way
- Bird Posts (including Montessori-Inspired Bird Activities for Preschoolers – photo) from The Pinay Homeschooler
- Montessori-Inspired Bird Unit from Mama’s Happy Hive
- Birds Eating Worms Practical Life Activity from PreKinders
Bird Posts from Little Tiger Growing Up
Bird Posts from Early Education with Antek and Kuba
Bird Posts from My Little Princess World
Bird Unit from Refined Metals Academy
Winter Birds from Homeschool Mo
B Is for Bird Preschool Unit from The Silvan Reverie
Learning About Birds in the Montessori Preschool Classroom from Montessori Nature
Montessori Bird Feeding Activities
- Montessori Bird Feeding Activity from Confessions of a Montessori Mom
- Bird Matching Basket and Bird Seed Garland from How We Montessori
Easy Shaped Bird Feeders Kids Can Make from Sugar Spice and Glitter
Bird Unit from The Homeschool Den
Birdwatching Posts from A Montessori Musing Place
Paper Bag Bird Nests from Montessori Mama
Bird Themed Activities
- DJ’s Bird Work, Bird Work Area, Following Lil: The Bird Lover (photo) from The Work Plan
- Bird Posts (including Bird Themed Unit Study (photo) from Montessori From the Heart
- Montessori Resources for Learning about Birds from Trillium Montessori
Learning About Birds with Fun Montessori Preschool Classroom Activities from NAMC
Birdfeeder Hanging Just Outside Classroom Window from Tree House Preschool Daycare
Learning About Birds from Spell Outloud
Montessori Parts of a Bird, Types of Birds, and Grammar Activity
- Our Trays ~ April, Chicken Eggs, Amazing Products from Montessori Print Shop (photo), Egg Observations, Bird Crafts, and Baby Chicks from Discovery Moments
- Bird Posts from Nurturing Learning (photo from Bird Puzzle Post – The printable used isn’t available, but you could use a parts of the bird printable like this.)
- Bird Booklet and Puzzle and Bird Labeling with Grammar Symbols (photo) from Mi Escuelita Montessori
Creating Sound Bingo from Bird Songs (Elementary Project) from We Don’t Need No Education
Time Line of Life from Miss Barbara (Elementary)
Bird Unit Study Pinterest Board
Bird Unit Study Pinterest Board
I have a Bird Unit Study Pinterest Board with lots of bird activities of all types and for many levels.
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I hope you have as much fun studying birds as we have! 🙂
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Thank you for featuring our mini bird book and thank you for so many other links!! We’re almost finished with our bird unit. The kids have each chosen a specific bird to learn more about and Little J will be writing a report on his choice. We are planning a visit to a raptor center as our end of unit celebration.
My pleasure, Kelly! Your bird unit has been absolutely fabulous! And I love that you have an end of unit celebration … so much fun! 🙂
I really enjoy reading your post when you round up links specifically to a unit. I love that first work from Spell Out Loud. Thank you for helping me find so many wonderful Ideas. I also want to let you know how much I appreciate you linking to both of my blogs. I especially like hearing from you in the comments. Thank you so much!!
Thanks for your kind comment, Discovering Montessori! The work from Spell Outloud is great, isn’t it?! It was my pleasure linking to your posts … wonderful activities! 🙂
Wow! What a collection of posts! Love it! Going to check them all out right now. Thanks for the mention BTW!
My pleasure, Maureen! Thanks for your kind comment. I had so much fun finding all these great activities! 🙂
What great ideas! JDaniel would love working with bird seed.
Thanks, JDaniel4’s Mom! Bird seed really does have lots of uses … and I never thought about how much fun it was until I taught young children! 🙂
These are all wonderful ideas! We’re on the tail end of our bird study, so I might pull from some of these ideas to wind everything up!
Thanks, Terri! Awesome bird study … I just pinned your posts to my Bird Unit Study Pinterest board! 🙂
Wow! SO many fantastic ideas. So much information and so much fun. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your kind comment, Amylynn! Finding all these activities has made me notice birds a lot more lately … benefits for all ages! 🙂
Perfect timing! My boys took a trip to the local world bird sanctuary today with my their grandparents. They loved it and my 2 year old has been saying, “bird, bird, bird.” all evening! I’ll have to find some fun stuff to do with them tomorrow to continue the learning.
Thanks, Jackie! I’m glad the timing was right … how great that you’ll be extending the experience! 🙂
Deb,
You site is one of my favorite place in the blogging world. There are always so many activities to be inspired by. I love your Bird Pintrest Board – what a collection !!!
Thank you for linking your post to our Spring Festival of Inspiration 2012. I feel really honored 😉
Warm hugs from Poland
Ewa
Thanks so much for your very kind words, Ewa! And I love your site! Warm hugs to you, too! 🙂
What an extensive list of wonderful resources! A person could teach for months with just this list. I love how nature based and real all of this is, it is a wealth of information. Thanks so much, Carolyn
Thanks so much for your kind comment, Carolyn! I was excited to find so many great bird activities online … lots of fun! 🙂
Love this! Great job! Thanks for including us!
Thanks so much, Lisa … and my pleasure sharing your wonderful activity! 🙂
Thank you for a great article, birds a a wonderful topic to follow, so many choices, colors and varieties for you to study.
Thanks, Les! And I love that birds are great for a study or follow-up any time of the year. 🙂
Thank you so much for putting these links together they have helped me so much in planning my upcoming bird unit with the kids!! I also started following you on pinterest – amazing!
Thanks so much for your kind comment, Amber … and thanks for following me on Pinterest! Your bird unit is awesome. I added it to my post! 🙂
You are an absolute blessing! Wow! We are switching it up, going from classical homeschooling to unit studies, and birds is the first topic we’ll be covering. Thank you so much for all of the hard work you put into this!
Thanks so much for your very kind comment, Colleen! I hope your family loves unit studies as much as mine did! I’m so glad I could help! 🙂
We feed the birds in the winter, so looking out our window is like being at a bird zoo. My daughter is currently obsessed with birds as she thinks they are all her pets. We’ve been doing a lot of bird learning lately, so I’ll be bookmarking this page to try out a lot of these learning activities with her.
I love the ideas you have. especially the bird thingy.