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(Message started by: waterblowing on May 8^th, 2006, 11:36pm)

Title: setup a BW club in primary school ЋчМЫІbЄpОЧЄКІЈЅпЦ[ГОЗ|?
Post by waterblowing on May 8^th, 2006, 11:36pm

Hi all,

I have an idea to set up a birdwatching club in primary school for all kids in limited budget. Any idea and advice proivde ? I have provided two lessons for the kids. They felt interested and wanted to know more. However, I am the beginner also. Where can I get some resource (free of charge is desired) , including tutors, professional advice, birdwatching curriculum design and other. Thanks for your advice first. Hope our next generation love the nature from their childhood.

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by Forrest FONG on May 8^th, 2006, 11:55pm

Hi waterblowing,

Please take a look of this webpage:-

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/edupub/techass.html

Regards,

Forrest

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by waterblowing on May 9^th, 2006, 9:30pm

.....15000....cant afford....
:(

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by World Cup 2006 on May 9^th, 2006, 11:27pm

Start simple and free. Start with the basic species published by the AFCD leaflets. That will keep your students busy for at least a few months. It is now the start of a new financial year and see if you can buy a spotting scope in time for the next season of migrating birds. A few bird guides to share among your students will not cost too much either. My two cents. :)

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by waterblowing on May 10^th, 2006, 1:09am

thanks...i have bought a spotting scope 100mm for students... it"s less expensive..about 2000...image not bad...some p.2 students (7 years old) can identify the spotted dove, red_whiskered bulbul, chinese bulbul and tree sparrow.  I have designed the birds checklist for them.  I tried to teach them how to identify these four kind of birds by their wonderful voice.  

After that, I will provide more species for them. I want to buy a few bino for them but budget is tight.. Any suggestion ? How about the brand ' Phantom' or 'Nikula' ?

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by waterblowing on May 10^th, 2006, 1:16am

any books suggested, buddies ?

Birds of Hong Kong and South China...Bought
A photographic guide to the birds of Hong Kong...bought

Want to buy more for reference....please advice any good books.

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by World Cup 2006 on May 10^th, 2006, 1:12pm

The ID books are good enough for your purpose. I would guess primary students like activity based learning more. There are a few more book published by the AFCD with further contents on bird life cycles, habitats etc. They may form good materials for activities. You can be as creative as you like! :)

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by Forrest FONG on May 10^th, 2006, 2:34pm

Hi Waterblowing,

As advised by Fred, the ID books you have are already good enough or even far enough for the primary school students.

HKBWS has published some booklets/leaflets regarding HK Birds for the public.

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/groups/shopmerchandizing/pubc.html

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/groups/shopmerchandizing/shop.html

(The book "Bird Watching - Starting from the City" is a very simple birds book which is suitable for children and it is only $20@)

Maybe you can make use of them as your teaching materials. Please contact our officer, Mr. LO ( lwaiy an@hkb ws.org.hk ) to see whether there are any spare copies.

Actually, you can very easily find a lot of information in the web (free of charge) and make use of them as your teaching materials.
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/edupub/resourc.html

Єp Єp Ц[ ГО Ўa http://www.hkbws.org.hk/edu/kid/

Regards,

Forrest 8)

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by Forrest FONG on May 10^th, 2006, 2:39pm

on 05/09/06 at 21:30:44, waterblowing wrote:

.....15000....cant afford....
:(

The programme is for secondary school to set up a bird watching club.

Forrest

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by Bob Thompson on May 10^th, 2006, 3:19pm

Also check out Comos Books as they have a large selection of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department books at a very attractive price.

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by Karl on May 10^th, 2006, 7:51pm

for your reference as well.
http://66.241.214.202/

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by Bob Thompson on May 10^th, 2006, 8:56pm

Great reference Karl, an online birdwatching club for primary schools would be a great hit with the children and parents. At least parents would know they were viewing something educational not games or porn.

Maybe you or another HKBWS computer guy could come up with a basic web design for schools and they could all link together to exchange bird sightings

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by waterblowing on May 10^th, 2006, 9:39pm

Thanks a lot, Forrest, Karl, Bob..
Bob how about your videos of Hong Kong Birds.
Seldom see you in NSW.... ;D
I intend to buy a camera to connect my Canon 300MM L len... but I dont know by where I can buy the adaptor. Any tips for me ?

Title: Re: setup a birdwatching club in primary school
Post by Bob Thompson on May 11^th, 2006, 2:21pm

Send me a private email with your details and I will arrange to make some dvd's of my video's for the school students.

I have bought an adapter from UK so that I am able to connect my Canon 300MM t2.8 FD lens to either my Betacam, Canon XL2 or Arriflex 16SR2 film camera. The adaptor doesn't have any optics so the quality is very good but unfortunately the price of the adaptor was also very good