Educators, did you know Flathead Audubon Society has educational materials, for teachers free of charge?

Use our trunks and materials to build, enhance, or tie into a class unit on birds or a complementary topic!

These interactive and hands-on materials can provide your students with unique opportunities for learning in a fun environment!

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HUMMINGBIRD BOX	COMMON BIRDS OF THE FLATHEAD BOX

What’s a great way to learn about birds? By becoming one of course! This box provides a costume to dress your students up with all the major bird adaptations to turn them into “real” birds of a feather!

Students will learn about the most visible birds around Flathead Valley. Box includes preserved bird specimens, slides, CD, pictures and worksheets!

This classroom set of 18 Petersen’s Bird Guides and 10 binoculars can help your students gain basic birding skills including use and care of binoculars, and bird identification techniques!

Use felt figures to relay the story of environmental change and the effects of change on native species.

Have your students take Maggie the Magpie (a puppet) home and journal about her activities! This is a great one for getting those shyer birds in your class to fledge!

Tell the wonderful story of life in dead trees! Students will explore the adaptations and life cycles of native birds that use dead trees for food and shelter. Box includes puppets, activity pages, preserved bird specimens, real cavity nests and much, much more!

Did you know a hummingbird only weighs as much as a penny? Learn all about this light weight of the bird world with the Hummingbird Box! Box includes a 30 minute narrative with visual aids, puppets and puppet show scripts, specimens, research units on our native hummingbirds and a humdinger of a resource notebook.