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Tracking Seasonal Change With Journey North How do the seasonal changes you observe locally relate to changes around the globe? Follow Spring's Journey North Rather than track each individual migration, you can follow the wave of spring itself. Seeing The Light: The Sun's Role in Living Systems Students create webs that illustrate their thinking about how sunlight affects living systems, such as food chains and webs. How Do you Define Spring? Spring Survey Students think about the signs that tell them spring has arrived in their region. Life Cycle Sleuth: Hypotheses About Migration Why do animals migrate? Students form hypotheses about the reasons for migration, and predict when migration will occur, based on an animal's life cycle and needs. Tick Tock, Biological Clock Students explore the concept of time and their own internal abilities to keep time. Then they consider the importance of biological clocks to migratory species. Journey North Creature Quiz If you catch only a glimpse of a feather, a fluke, or a flipper, can you identify each Journey North species? Fifteen Days of Spring Create a record of spring leaf-out in your schoolyard. How Old is Your Tree? How could you estimate the age of a tree without cutting it down to count its rings? Use the power of math! Student Portfolios as Visual Organizers for Journey North Signs of Spring Journal (printable cover and student pages) Animals and the Seasons Frozen Insects A Bear Out of its Lair A Year in the Life of a Black Bear Facts About Black Bears Bird Brains: Testing Bird Intelligence West Nile Virus: A New Challenge Fun Facts About Owls Owl Listening Guide: Who Gives a Hoot? Let's Go Owling Owl Moon: Literature Link Generalist or Specialist? A Peek at Some Beaks Nest Cams! Bluebird Projects Bluebird Houses Recognizing Wrens Wren Facts Fun With Wrens: Wren Videos How Often Does a Wren Feed Its Young? Build a Wren House! Sir Syd and Roast: Diaries of Two Tundra Swans Fireflies! Chickadee Dictionary Red-winged Blackbird Dictionary Brood Parasites: Cowbirds Swallows On a Mission Swallow Facts Plankton in the Sky? Observing Aeroplankton The Scoop on Poop: Disposable Diapers for Birds Muscle Magic Super Spinners and Wheels of Silk A Spider's Life Many Kinds of Spiders: Fun Facts About How They Catch Prey Timberdoodles and What They Do Keep Kitty Indoors Lesser Long-nosed Bats: Lepto Lessons and Resources Warbler Game and Habitat Cards Going Buggy! Insect-eating Birds What's Your Ecological Footprint? Take the Quiz

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