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LOCAL ACTIVITIES I.E.S. Antonio Domínguez Ortiz MADRID Bird houses in our school gardens One of the technology projects the 3rd year students at Antonio Domínguez Ortiz Highschool have carried out during the first term was the building of several bird boxes to place them both in our school gardens and in the park close to our school, Parque lineal de Palomeras Bajas. As you can see, they built 18 houses in total, using recycled wood from containers and pallets, as a means to encourage both reusing and recycling. Our students worked in groups of six in the school workshop and they were proud of the fact their work would help birds in the nearby park.Well done! And then as a follow-up activity, we planned a visit to the Park with Vente a ver aves, who help us to dicover the great number of bird species that are living in big cities, such as Madrid, nowadays and how our environment the habitat and customs of birds are changing. These are links that deal with our visits http://averaves.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/dobryden-jo-reggelt-y-god-morgen/