Bird Beak Activity

As a launch activity for our current PBL, we visited the Wonder Room on Monday for a special animal adaptation activity. Using different tools that represented various bird beaks (ex: a dropper for a hummingbird's beak), they attempted to grab different items as their food within a 30 second time limit. Depending on what "beak" they used, some were more successful than others. This led to a great discussion about why beaks are suited for each particular bird/food and what would happen if their source of food became scarce. They loved this activity and we are looking forward to our PBL, which is writing a class why book about animals that live in our state.