Battle of the Beak Activity

Directions:

  1. Each member of your group is a bird who needs to collect food particles to survive! You will use your "beak" to collect food.
  2. Collect as much food from the plate as you can in 30 seconds using only your “beak” and placing the food particles into your cup (stomach). (Each bird should have its own cup.)
  3. Count the amount and type of food you have collected for each type of beak and enter the information into the table below for each bird in your group.

Rules for food collecting:

1. Food can only be collected using your beak.

2. Your free hand cannot assist with food collecting.

3. Foodcannot be stolen from someone else's cup.

4. All types of food have the same nutritional value.

Battle of the Beak Activity

Directions:

  1. Each member of your group is a bird who needs to collect food particles to survive! You will use your "beak" to collect food.
  2. Collect as much food from the plate as you can in 30 seconds using only your “beak” and placing the food particles into your cup (stomach). (Each bird should have its own cup.)
  3. Count the amount and type of food you have collected for each type of beak and enter the information into the table below for each bird in your group.

Rules for food collecting:

1. Food can only be collected using your beak.

2. Your free hand cannot assist with food collecting.

3. Food cannot be stolen from someone else's cup.

4. All types of food have the same nutritional value.

Bird Beak Tool / beans / Straws / toothpicks / Cottonballs / Skittles / macaroni / marshmallows / paperclips
Scissors
Clothespin
spoon
tweezers

•As a class, we will calculate totals for each type of food.

Bird Beak Tool / beans / Straws / toothpicks / Cottonballs / Skittles / macaroni / marshmallows / paperclips
Scissors
Clothespin
spoon
tweezers
Bird Beak Tool / beans / Straws / toothpicks / Cotton balls / Skittles / macaroni / marshmallows / paperclips
Scissors
Clothespin
spoon
tweezers

•As a class, we will calculate totals for each type of food.

Bird Beak Tool / beans / Straws / toothpicks / Cotton balls / Skittles / macaroni / marshmallows / paperclips
Scissors
Clothespin
spoon
tweezers
  1. What strategies did you use to get your food? ______
  2. What was hard (or easy) about getting food? ______
  3. What if one of your beaks was broken. How might that affect the amount of food you were able to collect? ______
  4. Which beak do you consider the best? Why? ______
  5. How is a bird’s beak an adaptation? ______
  6. If a bird lives or dies, which of these, genetic factors or environmental factors, play the major role? Why? ______
  1. What strategies did you use to get your food? ______
  2. What was hard (or easy) about getting food? ______
  3. What if one of your beaks was broken. How might that affect the amount of food you were able to collect? ______
  4. Which beak do you consider the best? Why? ______
  5. How is a bird’s beak an adaptation? ______
  6. If a bird lives or dies, which of these, genetic factors or environmental factors, play the major role? Why? ______