A Bird in the Hand - Art Gallery of Alberta

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition ProgramCross-Curricular ConnectionsScience (Grades 1-9)1.4 Students will show growth in acquiring and applying a respect for living things and environments, andcommitment for their care.1.5 Creating Colour: Students will explore coloured materials, learning about different colours, how theyare created, what happens when they are mixed and how they can be transferred from one material toanother. Students will learn to distinguish and describe colours and work with a variety of materials tocreate, modify and apply colours. In the process, students learn that different materials have particularproperties and that the properties and interactions of materials have to be taken into account when theyare used for a specific purpose.1.6 Seasonal Changes: Students will describe seasonal changes, and interpret the effects of seasonalchanges on living things.1.10 Senses: Students will describe the role of the human senses and the senses of other living things, inenabling perception and action.1.11.6 Needs of Animals and Plants: Students will identify the requirements of animals to maintain life;i.e., air, food, water, shelter, space; and recognize that we must provide these for animals in our care.2.10.8 Small Crawling and Flying Animals: Students will identify ways in which animals are consideredhelpful or harmful to humans and to the environment. Students will describe the relationships of theseanimals to other living and nonliving things in their habitat, and to people.3.10 Animal Life Cycles: Students will describe the appearances and life cycles of some commonanimals, and identify their adaptations to different environments6.5 Air and Aerodynamics: Students will describe properties of air and the interactions of air with objectsin flight.6.5.6 Students will describe means of propulsion for flying animals and for aircraft.7. D.1 Structures and Forces: Students will describe and interpret natural structures, including thestructure of living things and the structures created by animals (e.g., birds’ nests).9. A.1. Biological Diversity: Students will investigate and interpret diversity among species and withinspecies, and describe how diversity contributes to a species survival. Students will identify examples ofniches, and describe the role of variation in enabling closely related living things to survive in the sameecosystem (e.g., investigate different bird species found in a local park ecosystem, and infer how each isadapted to life within that ecosystem).9. A.3. Biological Diversity: Students will describe in general terms, the role of genetic materials in thecontinuity and variation of species characteristics; and investigate and interpret related technologies.Students will distinguish between, and identify examples of, natural and artificial selection (e.g., evolutionof beak shapes in birds).AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479youraga.ca