Ideas

Focus on Education (Teaching Approach)

Use Celebrate Urban Birds kits and materials to support, build on, or expand a current program or educational activity you’ve already undertaken.

instructing kids on their projects

Discover local nature through observation and data collection
Teach sustainability by making a connection to birds
Support science education by engaging the public in citizen science where everyone’s observations are important and help scientists

group photo of participants on rock — (Photo © Courtesy of Rancocas Nature Center)

Support literacy by reading books such as Urban Roosts by Barbara Bash or Henry Cole’s On Meadowview Street, provide cross-curricular activities (including data collection), and connect with related outdoor experiences and crafts
Learn more about plants that feed birds, or learn what birds need for safe nesting and shelter.

kids learning with art — (Photo © courtesy of Pine Hills Elementary)

Explore themes such as threats to birds in cities, what you can do to help birds and nature, and more.
Encourage technology use by supporting the creation of podcasts by Urban Bird Sounds Project.

kids learning through nature and gardening — (Photo © courtesy of Pine Hills Elementary )

Create guided nature tours in your park, slide shows, photo exhibits, powerpoint displays, podcasts, quick little videos about birds they saw, nature blogs, twitter messages, and other fun stuff!

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Celebrate Urban Birds strives to co-create bilingual, inclusive, and equity-based community science projects that serve communities that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from birding, conservation, and citizen science. The project seeks to promote better science through equitable knowledge sharing, increased access, centering missing voices and experiences, and intentionally advocating for community ownership and scientific research leadership. Together with participating communities, the project has co-developed processes to co-design, pilot, and implement scientific research and programming while focusing on race and equity.