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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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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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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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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Townsend's Big Eared Bat

For Students 9th - 10th
This fact sheet on Townsend's Big-Eared Bat provides details on physical characteristics, migration, range, habitat, conservation, diet, reproduction, and other extra-fun facts.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Mexican Free Tailed Bat

For Students 9th - 10th
This fact sheet on the Mexican free-tailed bat provides details on physical characteristics, migration, range, habitat, conservation, diet, reproduction, and other interesting facts.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Adaptations: Fit for Survival

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan will help students explore adaptation, especially as it relates to migration. Students will come to realize that adaptations can be behavioral as well as physical. Students are assigned a particular animal to investigate...

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