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Migration
Update: April 4, 2007
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Today's
Report Includes:
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Bald eagle flight
feather
close up
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Eagle
Migration: Map, Data, and Questions |
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This
week's migration map >>
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Data
for your own classroom map >>
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Questions
about this week's map (handout) >>
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Highlights: They’re
off to Canada! There is no doubt that the migration is underway now.
The eagles have traveled a good distance toward their summer breeding
grounds already. Will they continue on the same migration paths? |
Spotlight
on U21:
Will U21 visit the north shore of Lake Superior again this spring?
Or, will she follow her fall migration path back towards James
Bay? >>
Make
your prediction! You can see if you were right on next week’s map.
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Slideshow:
Focus on Feathers |
Focus on Feathers
Slide Show >> |
Eagle
feathers are really amazing! They are strong, but flexible. They are
lightweight,
too. Eagles carry about 7,000 feathers on their bodies! Explore the simple
feather and learn some amazing facts about eagles and their feathers
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- Read Focus
on Feathers again and add any new words you learned to
your eagle glossary.
- Draw and label an eagle feather.
- Make a list of facts you learned,
and then teach someone else what you know.
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Focus on Feathers >> |
Explore:
An Eagle Portfolio |
During
the spring eagle study you’re learning just like scientists
learn. You gather information, send in field observations, study
maps, calculate migration distances, and research topics of special
interest. |
Try This!
Gather all you have learned into a 9 X 12 project portfolio.
Use your portfolio to show your observations, life cycle studies,
weather
information,
maps, research findings, and more. At the end of the season you will
have all your important work all together.
Take a look >>
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Links: This
Week's Eagle Resources |
- Teacher
Tip: Tracking
Flight Distance and Direction using a GPS >>
- Reference: Calculating
Distances as the Crow Flies (Using the Online Distance Calculator)
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- Reference: Bald
Eagles Map Archives >>
- Journal: Bald
Eagle Journal >>
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The
Next Bald Eagle Migration Update Will Be Posted on April 11, 2007.
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