Exhibits
A Bird's World
Speaking in a Bird's Language
Take a virtual tour of Acadia National Park in this exhibit, which includes a specimen of every bird found in New England. Interactive exhibits offer insight into bird behavior, and New England birders will also find a useful bird "dictionary."
Birds naturally detect predators. Their sounds and movements indicate hidden predators lurking around them all the time. Here, you can learn how to interpret the bird language you hear being chirped just outside your window at home.
You can also run a sound board to help the FBI solve some tough cases in Acadia National Park. Fly into the forest in a bird language computer game that puts you along a park nature trail. Try out the "Sneaking Corridor" to test your stalking skills, and see if you can sneak past a robin without setting off its alarm call. If you make it past the robin, you're ready to learn bird language.
| Format | Exhibit |
| Grades | K – Adult |
| Location | Green Wing, Lower Level — Museum of Science, Boston |
| Website | n/a |
| Documents | MOS_Watching_Wildlife_guide.pdf |
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Secondary Connections:
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Inquiry and Experimentation > Skills of Inquiry (Grade: K – 2)
- Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Science as Inquiry > Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
References:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
- Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
- Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
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Secondary Connections:
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Inquiry and Experimentation > Skills of Inquiry (Grade: K – 2)
Ask questions about objects, organisms, and events in the environment. - Life Science (Biology) > 08 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Describe how organisms meet some of their needs in an environment by using behaviors (patterns of activities) in response to information (stimuli) received from the environment. Recognize that some animal behaviors are instinctive (e.g., turtles burying their eggs), and others are learned (e.g., humans building fires for warmth, chimpanzees learning how to use tools).
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Science as Inquiry > Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
Ask a question about objects, organisms, and events in the environment.
References:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food. Other animals eat animals that eat the plants. - Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
All organisms cause changes in the environment where they live. Some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or other organisms, whereas others are beneficial. - Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments. Humans change environments in ways that can be either beneficial or detrimental for themselves and other organisms. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
An organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. How a species moves, obtains food, reproduces, and responds to danger are based in the species' evolutionary history.
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