The Bird School Project inspires and equips both students and teachers to love, study, and steward their local environment. Inspired by the ubiquitous nature of birds, Bird School engages students by visiting schools and taking students right outside on their school campus to discover the local avifauna first hand. The Bird School Project’s main program, a four-visit life science unit, includes schoolyard birdwatching, close examination of museum specimens, and the use of a field journal in which students transform their observations outside into creative data that marks their own progress in understanding.