The Boy Who Drew Birds is free 20-page download from Homeschool
Share – another one of their very nicely pulled together
resources. Using the picture book biography The Boy Who Drew
Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies as a
spine for the study, the unit covers history, geography,
science, language arts, art and math. Among the topics you will
cover include Napoleon, France, Pennsylvania, caves, seasons,
idioms, and, of course, birds. Activities include map work,
copywork, writing a letter, keeping a backyard bird lapbook,
making a bird feeder, creating a mixed-media picture and keeping
a nature journal. A bibliography provides more options for
further research.