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1. Journey North American Robin
Robins and Robin Migration Reading and Writing Connections for this selection: American Robin: Territory Study Reading Strategies: Activate Prior Knowledge Ask Questions and Make Predictions to Set a Purpose for Reading Build Vocabulary Skills Confirm/Refine Predictions Reread for Text Details Summarize Ma...

2. Journey North American Robin
Robins and Robin Migration Reading and Writing Connections for this selection: A Robin's Menu Through the Seasons Reading Strategies: Activate Prior Knowledge Ask Questions and Make Predictions to Set a Purpose for Reading Reread for Text Details Summarize Main Ideas and Details Make Text-to-Text Connectio...

3. Journey North American Robin
Robins and Robin Migration Reading and Writing Connections for this selection: American Robin: Eggstra! Eggstra! The Story Behind a Robin's Eggs Reading Strategies: Activate Prior Knowledge Ask Questions and Make Predictions to Set a Purpose for Reading Reread for Text Details Sequence Events Described in...

4. Journey North American Robin
Robins and Robin Migration Reading and Writing Connections for this selection: American Robin: Nest-Making Process Reading Strategies: Activate Prior Knowledge Ask Questions and Make Predictions to Set a Purpose for Reading Reread for Text Details Summarize Main Ideas and Details Make Inferences and Draw C...

5. Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration: Monarch Butterfly
...ome to Journey North! Site map >> Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles? and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them int...

6. Penguins Marching into Your Classroom by Jean Pennycook
...ent than where they live. Grade Levels 3. Look at pictures of penguin adaptations on the website ( Pre-shcool to grade 6 www.penguinscience.com/education/adaptations.php) and have students describe what makes these birds different than other birds they are familiar with, chickens, pigeons, ducks or robins. To Part II: Penguins Nesting Know-How Students then design a self addressed stamped post card about penguins or Antarctica. Send them as a class to the project coordinator before Oct 29, 2007. Full instructions at: http:// www.penguinscience.com/education/postcards.php Activities Looking at maps Co...

7. PCS - School Forest Lesson - Let's Plant Bulbs
...ents plant bulbs that will bloom early in the spring. Students can work with such programs as Journey North which Read tracks signs of spring. more... Supplies: bulbs PCS hand trowel Site Council - measuring tool Info and News Read more... Steps: 1) Start by talking about different signs of spring; robins returning, temperatures beginning to rise, days getting longer and insects appearing. 2) Outside dig a shallow trench for the bulbs (remember you only have to bury the roots and about 1/2" of the bulb) 3) Plant the bulbs 2" apart. 4) When you place the bulbs in the trench, make sure their roots go o...

8. Journey North: Reasons for Seasons--Exploring the Astronomy of Spring
...Ask students to create a list of things they see, do, and feel during different seasons. Ask, How do these things change from season to season? Do any of these relate to the environment (e.g., temperature changes)? Describe how. (E.g., You can ice skate because it?s cold enough for water to freeze; robins come back because it?s warmer.) What do you think causes these changes? Generate list of questions raised by this exercise and use it as a springboard for some of this mini-unit's activities. Older Students Ask students to try to characterize the different seasons by discussing weather, appearance o...

9. Journey North
...irst ruby-throated hummingbirds reported in U.S. March 10: Ice melts from Thoreau's Walden Pond. March 20: Monarch butterflies are leaving the sanctuaries in Mexico. April 7: The first whooping cranes leave Texas for Canada. April 10: First Gray whale mothers & babies reach Monterey Bay, CA. May 1: Robins finally arrive in North Pole, Alaska. Try This! End Products 1. Spread the News of Spring's Arrival in Your Community. Students at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School wrote weekly reports for their community newspaper, from February to June. "What a great experience," said teacher Joanne Amaru. The s...

10. Survey Document #2139
...at have fallen off the oak foliage. Elsewhere, spiders spin webs to catch unsuspecting insects like midges and young grasshoppers. Another inhabitant of the forest, a white-footed mouse, comes out and searches for food wildflower seeds, mushrooms, acorns, and any caterpillars it finds. Grackles and robins begin courtship and will soon feed caterpillars and earthworms to their young in the nests in the oaks. Linden looper caterpillars have other enemies besides the birds and beetles. A tiny wasp parasite lays her eggs on the caterpillar and the young wasp will feed on it (from the inside out!) until f...