Birds and Maps: How about using YardMap as a SchoolMap?

YardMap is a new citizen science project NSF funded through Cornell Lab of Ornithology to help map habitat for birds in the environment.

• Use the YardMap tool to map habitat for birds in your home yard.
• Then use YardMap to map habitat for birds in your school or a park?

At Jamestown Elementary School, Arlington, the school's "Green Team" club and Ms Payack's Second Grade class have made a bird feeder station.

The Second Grade class follows neotropical migrating birds and connects with a school in Nicaragua through the Smithsonian's Bridging the Americas. Bridging the Americas/Unidos por Las Aves is a year-long project that enhances both cultural and environmental awareness for schools in MD and VA, NH and VT through partnership with schools in Latin America.

It may be that these students and others can use this YardMap tool to map and analyze their schoolyard bird habitat - both in the courtyard and also in the playground and surrounding meadow and forest areas?

Details at http://content.yardmap.org/