How Does a Migration Move Forward?
Analyzing the Rate of Travel and What Might Affect It

National Science Education Standards

Inquiry

  • Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data. (5-8)
  • Use data to conduct a reasonable explanation. (K-4)<
  • Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence. (5-8)<
  • Think critically and logically to make relationship between evidence and explanations. (5-8)
National Math Standards
  • Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.
  • Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them.
  • Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data.
National Geography Standards
  • How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information.