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Title: The Audubon annual bulletin
Identifier: audubonannualb191623illi (find matches)
Year: 1938 (1930s)
Authors: Illinois Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds; Birds
Publisher: (Chicago, Ill. ) : The Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 33 Bird Contest in Zoology Classes In a letter from Mr. Harold B. Shinn of the Karl Schurz High School, Chicago, there is an interesting reference to the scheme he has been using to stimulate bird observations among the two hundred fifty zoology students of that school by utilizing their play instinct. If this is of value in a large city high school it would seem to be of all the more value where conditions are more ideal for bird study. We take the liberty of copying Mr. Shinn's memorandum. "Over a large board, about 18 x 48 inches, we tacked a white cheese- cloth. The pupils in the drawing department made on. this a colored chalk picture of a landscape having fields and a river in the foreground and mountains in the background. Crossing the river is a road which winds into the distance and climbs the mountain side. When a pupil has re- ported 5 birds his name is written on a small pennant (paper) and he is
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started on the trail. 10 birds carry him over the river and into the second field; 20 birds carry him over the fence into the third field, 30 birds into the next field, etc. We have seven sections of pupils and therefore use seven different colors of paper for the pennants and these are affixed by means of small pins stuck through the cheesecloth." "The landscape is quite well done and large enough to attract attention. The parti-colored pennants add to the interest of the picture. The climax is gained by the rivalry between sections and between pupils as they watch their pennants progress across the board. We have used the board two seasons and it has put more life into the reporting of field work than anything else I have ever tried or seen others try." "Various means of getting the reports can be used. We give the pupils large sheets, each printed into 8 blank records. The pupil colors the printed diagram of the bird with his own crayons, fills in the data and hands in each record as he makes it. The records are kept and tabulated, then returned to the pupil who now pastes them into his laboratory note-

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