Involve the class in a magazine project to help raise public awareness to aid the preservation of the bald eagle. Ask students to choose an area of interest -- writing article content, generating artwork, creating puzzle pages, trivia facts and writing fictional stories or poems -- for an online or hard-copy publication. Set a deadline for copy to be submitted and then edit it before going to press. Distribute the magazine to let others know about the plight of the bald eagle, or publicize the online copy.
Prepare an egg hunt by hiding clues, written on egg-shaped pieces of card, around the school. Then send the class on an egg hunt to find the eggs. Once a student finds an egg clue, she has to solve the clue or puzzle that relates to a specific regional habitat -- where the bald eagle lives now, has lived in the past, or tells of areas where the bald eagle population has declined significantly. She then has to research into the habitat indicated in her clue and write a nature file on the facts she has discovered. Next, she then lists the nature facts about the eagle and its habitat on to an egg-shaped card. Finally, she has to stick the fact egg on to a big blank geographical map to demonstrate her findings for the benefit of the rest of her class.
Engage the class in a creative endeavor. Rather than assigning an individual art project, divide the class into small groups of 3 to 4 children per group. Give each group the task of either producing a wall mural, an exhibition of artworks, or a sculpture with the bald eagle as the subject. Once the artworks are complete, display the pieces in the main hall of the school to create an art gallery for a potential parent's evening.
Use the theme of the bald eagle to create a short animation to reach a wider public with the message that the bald eagle is an endangered bird of prey. Ask children to come up with ideas -- as a group -- for a story idea for the animation. Get all the children in the class involved in producing the animation by issuing each student with a specific task -- writing dialogue, creating the artwork for the animation, photographing the still shots, and (for students who are able) edit the animation on a simple animation software program. Submit the animation to film sites online, or enter it into an animation or short-film competition.