{"id":1831,"date":"2013-04-30T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:14:06","slug":"discover-birds-program-makes-the-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/30\/discover-birds-program-makes-the-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Birds Program Makes the Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1851\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chris_Discover_Birds1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1851\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1851\" alt=\"NIMBioS Deputy Director Chris Welsh tells Sevierville Primary second graders about his passion for birds at a Discover Birds school visit in April.  Photo Credit: discoverbirds.blogspot.com\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chris_Discover_Birds1.jpg\" width=\"592\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chris_Discover_Birds1.jpg 544w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chris_Discover_Birds1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NIMBioS Deputy Director Chris Welsh tells Sevierville Primary second graders about his passion for birds at a Discover Birds school visit in April. Photo Credit: discoverbirds.blogspot.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In light of the success of the Discover Birds program among Tennessee elementary schools, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnbirds.org\/aboutus.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Ornithological Society<\/a> (TOS) voted at their annual meeting in Knoxville last weekend to order a second printing of the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/discoverbirds.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/discover-birds-activity-book-2013.html\" target=\"_blank\">Discover Birds activity book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The program appears to be meeting its primary goals of getting elementary school-aged children excited about birds and science. &#8220;The excitement and enthusiasm you see from the kids is a real thrill,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/personnel\/dir_welsh\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Welsh<\/a>, NIMBioS deputy director and Discover Birds volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh recently visited two local elementary schools with the program. At <a href=\"http:\/\/discoverbirds.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/sevierville-primary-school-second.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Sevierville Primary<\/a> in April, 215 second grade students viewed a slide show about birds and examined feathers, owl pellets and other bird-related objects. Welsh joined other volunteers to lead students on bird walks on the school grounds where students spotted an American Robin sitting on a nest and Tree Swallows visiting nest boxes, as well as many other birds. More details and photos about the school visit are available at the Tennessee Ornithological Society <a href=\"http:\/\/discoverbirds.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discover Birds blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all 1,000 activity books from the first printing have now been distributed with most having been donated to classrooms and teachers. NIMBioS <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/15\/kids-discover-birds-with-math\/\" target=\"_blank\">contributed math-bird activities<\/a> to the 36-page activity book. The math-related activities developed by NIMBioS for Discover Birds, along with illustrations by <a href=\"http:\/\/vickiehenderson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vickie Henderson<\/a>, are<a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/education\/discoverbirds\" target=\"_blank\"> freely available for download here<\/a>. For more information about how to obtain the Discover Birds activity book or to request a visit at your school, contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnbirds.org\/KTOS.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Knoxville Chapter of the Ornithological Society.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the success of the Discover Birds program among Tennessee elementary schools, the Tennessee Ornithological Society (TOS) voted at their annual meeting in Knoxville last weekend to order a second printing of the popular Discover Birds activity book. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/30\/discover-birds-program-makes-the-grade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,4,14,6],"tags":[106,16,102,5,34,101,45,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}