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Students investigate the migration route of one bird, Osprey B4, using information gathered from satellites to track birds over a two-year period. They coimpare their graphs with maps of B4's migrations that have been plotted by migration scientists.

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migration, birds

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bird migration, ospreys, math
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Grade
7th - 8th
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Math
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