Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Join the celebration by creating paper butterflies that will migrate to their counterparts in Mexico for the winter. Children in Mexico who live beside the monarch's winter sanctuaries send them north in the spring.
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Human Migration Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this activity to figure out where the first humans lived. This activity requires students to read clues and use their understanding of the clues to create a map to give them a visual representation of early humans movements.
Lesson Plan
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...
Website
Migration Policy Institute

Migration Policy Institute: Settlement Patterns of the Foreign Born

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete analysis of the settlement patterns of the foreign born based upon the 2000 Census information.
Lesson Plan
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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Swine Flu in Finland

For Students 9th - 10th
In 2009, an outbreak of swine flu in Finland resulted in significant damage to the economy. Researchers investigated the potential cause of the disease. Through scientific experimentation, they were able to identify the disease as a new...
eBook
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Pattern in Integer Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th
Get independent practice finding patterns in integer exponents. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tracking Polar Bears

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity adapted from the USGS Alaska Science Center, students will track the movements of a polar bear as it migrates across the changing Arctic sea ice and compare the paths of four different polar bears.
Website
Other

Hummingbirds.net

For Students 9th - 10th
This entire website is entirely dedicated to hummingbirds. This is a great place to learn more about different hummingbird species, attracting and feeding them, migration patterns, and more.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Caribou

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource that contains facts about caribou, challenge questions, lessons, activities and migration information. The migration pattern of the caribou is also tracked.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Time to Fly!

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monarch butterflies and their migration patterns. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Graphic
Curated OER

[Maps as Tools in Tracing Migration Patterns, Chart]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress surveys the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities during the early twentieth century. Features include statistics, maps, and reasons for the migration.
Graphic
Curated OER

[Maps as Tools in Tracing Migration Patterns, Map]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress surveys the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities during the early twentieth century. Features include statistics, maps, and reasons for the migration.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Gray Whales

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Track gray whale migration. Use live data to observe migration patterns.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Report Your Sightings

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe various migratory species (hummingbirds, butterflies, etc.) and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
Website
Other

Center for the Study of the First Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
This institute attempts to provide answers to the questions: when did the first people enter the Americas, who were the first immigrants, where did they come from, and how did they get here?
Graphic
Other

Statistical Yearbook: Unhcr

For Students 9th - 10th
A PDF publication from the U.N. on the state of refugees in the world 2001. Provides data on countries that are taking in refugees, asylum seekers and where they have fled.
Activity
BBC

Bbc: The Road to Refugee

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifty years after the adoption of the UN Convention on Refugees, the decade we live in has seen more of the world's people than ever before seeking refuge from war, persecution or disaster. This special report tells the stories behind...
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Canada Goose

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia defines and describes the Canada goose. Content includes a look at this bird's characteristics, behavior, food, migration pattern, reproduction, and environmental status.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 7 Social Studies: Immigration

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the causes and consequences of historical events related to patterns of migration, immigration, and land use that influenced the cultural development of...
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Other

Ohio Public Libraries: The Evolution of Ohio

For Students 9th - 10th
Eleven major territories of Ohio are separated and information on economic patterns, population trends, migratory patterns and historical information is provided for each. Site is easily navigated with buttons and links.
Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Tundra Animals

For Students 2nd - 8th
Explore this comprehensive resource on the birds and mammals of the tundra. This resource features information such as diet, class, order, size, habitat, conservation range and the like.
Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Hummingbirds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe hummingbirds and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
Handout
Other

The Evidence for Evolution: Biogeography

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called "Evolution," that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. These pages are about the house sparrow and the differences that can be observed in it in different geographical...

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