Decorah Eagles!

I love that this available again this year. It is live footage of two eagles in their nest 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/decorah-eagles The bald eagles pictured above have laid 3 eggs this year and each parent takes a turn on the nest.

The website enchanted learning has basic information and can easily be adapted for young students to use the internet to research facts to write a report.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/info/Eagle.shtml

In class I start each lesson about what has occured during the day and since I teach multiple classes I am able to take screen shots and put the pictures into a powerpoint slideshow to share with each class. Just by observing the streaming and the powerpoint show I have created 500 eagle experts!

Using Digital Art to Create Colorful Easter Eggs

This was a great and very fun digital art lesson that can easily be adapted for any grade! The students used a program such as Microsoft Paint divided it into sections and doodled in each section. I introduced a book that talks about the artist Klimt and I read the story Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco. We discussed the different repetitive designs that are found in the paintings or the eggs represented in Chicken Sunday. I printed copies of zen tangles for the students to reference to give them ideas for their art. Overall I am very pleased with this idea. It can easily be adapted for Valentine's Day or different shades of green for St. Patrick's Day.