March 21, 2011

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Science World is now offering comprehensive online resources for “Unlocking the Mysteries of Migration" on p. 12.

• Start your lesson by showing this ANCHOR VIDEO, which will introduce your students to some animals that embark on amazing migrations.
  
  
  
  
• Next, read the article, Unlocking the Mysteries of Migration, p. 12, that describes four different species’ unique migrations. Your entire class can view a DIGITAL VERSION of the article using your interactive whiteboard and computer projector.
  
  
• After reading the story, have students complete the CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING skills sheet. This can be done as a class or individually to test students’ reading comprehension.
  
  
• Finally, wrap up your lesson with this BONUS, ONLINE REPRODUCIBLE where your students will test a method of estimating animal populations. They can then compare their results with the estimation activity in the student edition, which examined a different way of estimating population sizes.
  
  Teacher's Edition
  Download this issue's Teacher's Edition here. (Answer keys have been removed.)
  
  Online-only Skills Pages
• Germ Warfare
• Unlocking the Mysteries of Migration
• Name That Element!
• Self-Scoring Science News Quiz
  
  
  WEB EXTRAS!

  Science News/Batty Behavior

• Watch bats attempt to drink from smooth metal plates.
  
  
  Germ Warfare

• VIDEO EXTRA: Watch a video about the RTS,S vaccine.

• Learn more about mosquitoes and how they transmit malaria at the CDC’s Web site.

• The Seattle Times has a comprehensive Web site about malaria with articles, infographics, interviews, and more.

  
  Unlocking the Mysteries of Migration

• VIDEO EXTRA: Watch a video about migration.

• Check out National Geographic’s comprehensive Web site that accompanies its Great Migrations mini-series.

• Learn more about monarch butterfly migration.

• Find out more about the Christmas Island red crab migration.

  
  Name That Element!

• Visit the Jefferson Lab’s It’s Elemental Web site to learn more about carbon and other elements on the periodic table.

• Check out the American Chemical Society’s interactive periodic table.

• For a photographic tour of the periodic table, check out Theodore Gray’s The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2009. Gray also has an iPad app called The Elements!