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PBS

Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Animal Migration

For Students 3rd - 5th
A comprehensive overview of animal migration. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities,...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Geostories: Tracking Animal Migrations

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive Geostory illustrates how animal tracking data helps us understand how individuals and populations move within local areas and migrate across oceans and continents.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Animal Movements

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, students will explore animal movements. They will compare movements and relate them to where animals live and how they obtain food. The lesson includes animal cards and a worksheet as well as strategies for diverse...
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Other

Patagonia: A Bear's Journey (An Animal Migration Resource)

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource about one grizzly bear's 50-mile migration that underscores the environmental issues associated with shrinking wildlife habitats.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Many Moves of Migration

For Students 4th - 8th
It is well known that some animals migrate annually or semi-annually, but this exercise will identify how many animals actually migrate, how they migrate and why.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Migration of the Monarch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies. [4:39]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Marathon Migrators

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores how the migratory patterns of shorebirds have evolved to coincide with the spawning of horseshoe crabs. [6:00]
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Animals for Kids: Animal Migrations

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Animal Migrations. How animals travel for miles across the land, air, and sea for the changing seasons.
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Other

Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Marine Animal Tracking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson engages students in an activity to monitor animal foraging behavior on a spatial scale. The students will break into groups and track each other's movements as they move through a pre-determined course. The results will be...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Animal Adaptations

For Students 4th - 5th
A multitude of activities provide help with understanding animal adaptations.
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Orpheus Books

Q Files: Animals: Animal Movement

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out the many different ways that animals move through their environments.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Cuban Crab Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, crabs face numerous obstacles in their migration from their forest home to the Caribbean Sea. [4:09]
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Animal Navigation

For Students 4th - 8th
A classroom activity helping students understand how migratory animals know where they're headed when it is time to move.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Plant and Animal Changes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will learn about animal adaptation, hibernation, and migration.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Moving at the Zoo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Look at the many different types of animal movement that you can see at the zoo. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Animals: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of animal adaptations, that look at physical and behavioral adaptations.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Scent of an Alewife

For Students 3rd - 8th
This video segment from NOVA: "Sea Behind the Dunes" tracks the return of spawning alewife fish from the open ocean back to the freshwater streams and ponds where they were born. [3:34]
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Scholastic

Scholastic News: Week of 6 16 14: Zebras on the Move

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about the African animals that hold the record for the longest land migration by a group of mammals.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Journeys Grade 3: Stories of Migration

For Students 3rd
An eighteen-part learning module with links to texts, images, and videos about animal migration.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can view maps showing the migratory paths of dozens of animals across the northern hemisphere, report a sighting of one of the animals listed in the database, and much more.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Eli the Eel: A Mysterious Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
James Prosek tracks the life journey of Eli the Anguilla eel as she travels her mysterious "backward" migration from the sea to fresh water and back again. [4:39]
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NASA

Nasa: Space P Lace: Play Migration Concentration!

For Students 3rd - 8th
View a short clip of migrating geese and discover interesting facts about why geese migrate and animated pictures of the different kinds of geese n the USA. Coupled with this great information is an interactive game of concentration that...
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PBS

Lesson Plan: Organism Migration in Bhutan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Science lesson plan that teaches students about plant & animal migratory patterns in the various zones of Bhutan. Part of the PBS website devoted to Bhutan.

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