Bird Alliance of Oregon’s Digital School Programs can be presented to your classroom of students, youth groups including scouts, neighborhood clubs, church groups, families, etc. in a COVID-safe way. All of our programs are nature-based, student-centered, allowing every student to become active in the learning process. These programs are the perfect compliment to your environmental curriculum. By design, they include key language from K-5 Science Standards: adaptation, characteristics/traits, diversity, senses, and environment.
To book a digital school program, please email Tara Lemezis, Education Administrator & Marketing Liaison: TLemezis@birdallianceoregon.org.
Science Inquiry Hour
Our environmental educators will virtually join your class for Science Inquiry Hour! We’ll teach your students for one hour, using our unique collection of specimens for observation-based learning about the natural world. Personalize your program by choosing from one of the themed options below to augment your group’s science and environmental education needs, designed to correlate with NGSS and STEM requirements.
Red-tailed Hawk, photo by Mick Thompson
Choose Your Theme
Neighborhood Birds, Birds of Prey, Pacific Northwest Habitats & Mammals, or Night Flight: Bats & Owls
Flexible, 1-hour digital program, Tuesday-Thursday
Price per classroom
$90
Grades
1-8
Anna's Hummingbird, photo by Mick Thompson
Neighborhood Birds
Our educators use our unique collection of bird specimen kits to help your students investigate different birds’ wings, feet and skulls to think about how a variety of traits and different adaptations can help birds live in different habitats and fulfill different niches.
Birds of Prey
Virtually examine a variety of wings, skulls and feet of raptors in our area in Birds of Prey! Students will investigate all of the amazing adaptations raptors have and what separates them from other birds. Learn how to identify the most common birds of prey and compare and contrast specimens from falcons, hawks and owls.
Pacific Northwest Habitats & Mammals
Learn about the varied Pacific Northwest ecosystems and what unifies and diversifies mammals by investigating pelts and skulls of mammals that live here. Learn how to identify a mammal by looking at it’s skull and how each animal’s unique set of adaptations help them live in different ecosystems and fulfill different niches. Our unique collection of mammal pelts and artifacts promote hands-on learning, interpretation, and deeper exploration of ecosystems, food webs, and how they use their senses and the relationship these animals have with humans and each other.
Night Flight: Bats & Owls
By investigating owl and bat specimens, your students will delve into the mysterious world of these (mostly) nocturnal creatures, discovering how many of them have adapted to nighttime survival and living in urban habitats. Learn about their unique set of adaptations that help them be incredible hunters. This program is sure to instill an appreciation for our nocturnal neighbors, uncovering the unique niche they occupy in the natural world.
