October 2024

What’s Up, Woodpecker?

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Skills Sheets

Reading Objective:

Students will identify the steps an acorn woodpecker uses to store acorns in a tree to eat them during the winter when food is harder to find.

Next Generation Science Standards:

K-LS1-1: What animals need to survive.

1-LS1: How animals meet their needs so they can survive and grow

Vocabulary:

store, snugly, squawk, sap