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…
