Critical
Thinking: Discuss:
•How do you know the experts are concerned about
#412's insect bite?
•Why does the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP, pronounced
WEE-sep) put colored leg bands on every bird in the Eastern flock?
•How can you find the answer to "Guess Who?" on
page 5? (Look
at the banding
codes charts. Start with hatch year
2001. See
notes at the top of the page, telling which leg the individual
codes are on. See if the clues match any information on booklet
p. 5. If not, go to banding codes for the 2002 birds, etc.
•On page 6, why is the
costumed person
holding the puppet high
over the adult cranes' heads? (to
assert dominance and keep the "parental authority")
Why
don't the pilots and handlers want the older ultracranes hanging
around the training
sites? (They
don't want the older cranes challenging them for authority, distracting
the chicks' focus on training, or leading the chicks astray.)
•On
page 7, enourage students to get clues from the questions
to help them in their search on the bio pages. Answers:
#710, pair 211
and 217, #312 got
an aluminum pop-top lid stuck on her bill and couldn't open her
mouth, #733,
21 chicks in 2009
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Consider
Author's
Purpose: Why did the author write "Use Your Cranium?"
Use Technology for Research: Revisit
questions throughout the booklet and guide kids in navigating
the Journey
North Web site to answer the questions. For example, from
the JN home page, click on the picture
of Whooping Cranes and you'll go to the crane
home page, a
good one to bookmark. Choose "Explore"
and under Fall Lessons choose "Meet
the Cranes of the New Eastern Flock" to navigate to charts referenced
in the booklet. These pages are the route to answers for the booklet's questions — and
a lot more fun stuff! (A particularly fascinating crane is #309! Click
and scroll down for the most recent information on any bio page.)
Learn from the Experts/Read an Interview: To
answer the question on page 6, your students may benefit
from this lesson:
Dominant
or Submissive? Leader
or Follower? (See Journaling Questions/Activities at
the end of this lesson.)
NOTE: For
younger children, start with Who's
in Charge? (see Journey North for Kids )
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