Connecting With Other Classrooms
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Interested in doing an interactive phenology project with your students
this Spring? Join the Science Museum of Minnesota, TIES, and Journey North
staff for a full day of Journey North and Phenology studies at Warner
Nature Center. Experience classroom activities you can use in your "own
backyard" which support your participation in Journey North. Learn how to
track and report various migrations over the Internet with your students.
Participation in Journey North is free, and curricular support materials
are available. Lunch is included.
Appropriate for Grades 2-9
Location: Warner Nature Center
Date: Saturday, March 2, 1996
Time: 9 am - 3 pm
Cost: $50
to register call (612) 221-4747
Optional graduate credit available
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jn-info@learner.org or visit the World Wide Web site at:
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Background Information:
JOURNEY NORTH, 1996
Students Track Spring's Journey North
This year, the Annenberg Media* Math and Science Project is
pleased to present Journey North, an annual Internet-based
learning adventure that engages students in a global study
of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Beginning on
Groundhog's Day (Feb. 2nd) students will travel northward
with spring as it sweeps across the continent of North
America. With global classmates and state-of-the-art
computer technology, they'll predict the arrival of spring
from half a world away.
Migrations
Up-to-the-minute news about a dozen migrations will be
exchanged between classrooms as students report observations
from their own home towns. Migrations to be tracked by
Journey North this spring include:
Monarch Butterflies, Robins, Bald Eagles, Loggerhead Sea
Turtles, Peregrine Falcons, Right Whales, Humpback Whales,
Loons, Orioles, Whooping Cranes, Caribou and migratory Bats
of the Sonoran Desert!
The dramatic journeys of several animals will be tracked by
satellite. News will travel from the animals' transmitters
to an orbiting satellite and then directly into the
classroom via the Internet. This revolutionary technology
will give students a bird's-eye view of the remarkable
challenges faced by individual animals as they travel.
Signs of Spring
Linked to classrooms from the tropics to the tundra,
students will conduct interactive, comparative studies of
the natural world. In addition to following migrations,
they will observe the local emergence of spring through
studies of changing daylight, temperature and other signs of
spring.
For example, students will proclaim the official arrival of
spring when tulips bloom in their communities. In this and
other "Spring Fever" projects, classrooms investigate the
relationship between geography, temperature and the arrival
of spring. Together students gather, organize and analyze
their own data. Using the Internet they can fit their local
observations into a global context--essentially seeing that
their small part of the world is part of a large, natural
system.
(*CPB Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
© Journey North 1996