• Audubon Bird Study

    1. Audubon Bird Study: An Introduction to John James Audubon

    April 5, 2025 - By 

    Read this short biography about John James Audubon on nga.gov. Read this aloud (pre-read first as some aspects of Audubon’s life were rough), or if attention spans are short, simply read this beforehand so that the general information about Audubon is fresh in your mind. John James Audubon was an ornithologist, naturalist, and artist that made it his life’s work to document and illustrate every species of bird in America. While he did not successfully document every species of bird, he did illustrate 435 species of birds in his famous book, Birds of America. These illustrations were life-sized paintings of…

  • Kentucky Ecology

    Ecology of Kentucky: Introduction

    February 15, 2025 - By 

    This year in science, we’ll be learning about the ecology of our wonderful state, Kentucky. You might be thinking, “What exactly is ecology?” Ecology is a type of science that studies the relationships between living organisms in an environment, which you can think of as the natural world around us. So, before we go any further, we need to think about what living things are in our environment. Some things are easy to identify as living: us, the people around us, our dogs, our cats, even our pet fish. But what are some other things that may not immediately come…