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My Weekend Bird Feeder Project

Written by a 9-year-old home-educated student. The project was the building. The learning was everything else.

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  1. 02Planning the bird feeder
  2. 03Building it
  3. 04Watching the birds
  4. 05The squirrel problem
  5. 06How nature is connected
  6. 07My observation notebook
  7. 08Problems and improvements
  8. 09What this project taught me
  9. 10Conclusion
  10. 11Where to go from here.