For the past several years, fourth grade students from Evergreen Community Charter School in Asheville, NC visited Big Bald Banding Station during the fall migration banding season. The faculty of Evergreen and staff of Southern Appalachian Raptor Research (SARR) created a collaborative Bird Unit which includes hands-on field studies and follow-up classroom activities. Click here to view an outline of Evergreen’s 4th-Grade Bird Unit.
Following visits to Big Bald, students created a Bird Guide, PowerPoint presentations, reflections on their trip, and graphs illustrating yearly numbers of birds banded. To view samples of the students’ work, click on the links below.
Blue ridge bird observatory 