Tips
for Teachers
Customize
the pages as appropriate for your class. Just download our
page, open through your Word application, enter your own questions,
categories, or spacing-and print! Or, use the pages the way
we designed them:
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Print a cover for each student and 8
journal pages for each student (1 per Migration
Update). Journals can be stapled, bound, or kept in each
students' pocket folder to pull out on "Journey North
days."
- Keep
records of the migration's progress. Observation posts
send migration data from California and Alaska--and from other
points along the whales' trail. (We provide the best information
we can. Remind students how difficult it is to see, track, and
report whales—who travel in the ocean, underwater, day
and night, and in all weather!)
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Mark
the map to show where sea ice is still frozen
at the whales' feeding grounds in the Arctic, their final
destination. NOTE: Bookmark this live map of
sea ice cover.
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Progress
of the Migration asks students to look at the live
map for reports from observers at various latitudes, data
which should be available after the northbound migration gets
underway.
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Date
of the Key Migration Events is something all ages
can fill in, using links to the data tables in each of our
reports.
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My Headline invites students to identify
the main ideas in migration reports in their own creative
ways.
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Summary
is a place to sum up the each report's highlights in a paragraph
with topic sentence and supporting details.
- Answer
our Journal Questions. We've allowed space for
students to answer any or all of the excellent Journal
Questions that appear in each migration update and
many lessons. (Students can flip the page over for more
writing space.)
- Other
Thematic Journals. The gray whale migration study is
rich with concrete examples of key science concepts (such as
habitat, adaptations, ecosystems, seasons and cycles). See more
tips on teaching themes and Journey North journals: Building
Understanding Through Long-term Studies.
- Helpful
Links:
Journey North Journals;
Journaling
Questions and Assessment
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