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Integrated
Study Unit,
Monitoring Operation Migration's
Fall 2006 Migration
October
21, 2006
Dear
Parents:
As
your son or daughter may have already mentioned, our class has just
begun an integrated unit following the “Ultralight-guided” migration
of eighteen juvenile Whooping Cranes from Wisconsin to Florida.
This is the sixth annual migration training mission to be
conducted by Operation
Migration,
a Canadian non-profit organization based out of Port Perry, Ontario.
The migration will probably be complete in early to mid-December.
Our
study of this migration, and the endangered Whooping Crane in general,
will touch on several curriculum areas:
Language (reading, writing, oral communication and media
studies), Science (the Grade Two animal unit), Math (numeration,
graphing and estimation), Social Studies (mapping), Computer Studies (following
migration progress and conducting Whooping Crane research via the
internet), Character Education (citizenship, responsibility, caring) and
Art.
In
November, we will be creating paper mache Whooping Crane sculptures.
You can help by saving up newspapers and paper rolls (from gift
wrap, paper towel and toilet paper) and sending them to class.
Some
of our Whooping Crane-related classroom activities will soon be posted
on the internet. In the
meantime, you and your son or daughter might enjoy exploring the
following web sites together:
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