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Thanks to Doug O'Harra at Far North Science for alerting us to this exciting story!
| BEFORE READING |
Activate Prior Knowledge: Where would you find gray whales at each season of the year? Create a timeline that describes where the whales are in spring, summer, fall, winter. Invite students to share what the gray whales are doing in each of their seasonal habitats. Make
Predictions: Look at the cover. Read the title. Help
students make predictions using the Clue
Collector activity. Words to use: Arctic, Baja, astonishing,
shrinking, thinning, trapped, calls, sound recorder. |
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| DURING READING |
| Page-by-Page Paraphrase: After each page encourage students to summarize main ideas. Highlight words from the Clue Collector activity (above) as you read. |
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| AFTER READING: EXTENDING LEARNING |
Clue Collector Revisit: Invite students to use the Clue Collector words to retell and summarize the main ideas of the slide show. Invitation to Research: Post the unanswered question: How might climate change affect gray whales food, habitat, and migration? Invite students to collect news updates and other resource articles that help shed light on possible answers. Connections to Self: How do weather and climate affect your activities, clothing, food choices, travel, recreation)? What things do you do differently in each season where you live? At-home Connection: Suggest that students print out the slide show, staple the pages, and read the booklet with families to share the "astonishing event." Digging
Deeper: Citation for the original study:ARCTIC VOL.
60, NO. 2 (JUNE 2007) P. 167– 172 Gray Whale Calls Recorded
near Barrow, Alaska, throughout the Winter of 2003–04 Encourage students to find out more about how sound recorders are used in research. Related
Journey North Lessons |