Hopscotch Migration

Students play a game of hopscotch as they simulate birds migrating north through wetlands. They compare the game to real bird migration and discuss how the health of the wetlands is proportional to the health of birds.

Middle schoolers study bird migrations and the importance of wetlands.  In this migration lesson students play a game and complete a computer activity. 

Students use a hopscotch course to simulate the problems birds incur as they are migrating due to loss of wetlands.

Students understand the use of the wetlands by migrating birds and identify causes for disappearance of the wetlands.

Students identify the different functions of a wetland system and why the system is important to the St. Mary's River ecosystem and the environment. They play a migration game and write a journal about the salt marsh periwinkle and how...