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Journey North

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Grade Level: K-12 Curriculum Area: Biology/Science Methods
Recording Rights: Through 12/2009 Web: www.learner.org/jnorth

An instructional Web site for K-12 students and their teachers; 1 one-hour Professional Development Video Program and Workshop Guide for teachers on the use of Journey North; and a Teacher’s Manual with support materials. Journey North is an Internet-based program that engages students in investigations of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Each year, thousands of students and their teachers across North America come together to experience the annual cycle through observation, inquiry, research, and the sharing of data. Access to the Journey North Web site is free: www.learner.org/jnorth.

With the Professional Development Video and Workshop Guide, teachers can watch Journey North classrooms in action and learn how to use the program in their classrooms. Teachers of second through seventh grades are featured with their students engaging in some of the most popular Journey North investigations. The 150 page Teacher’s Manual comes in a tabbed three-ring binder which contains 35 interdisciplinary lessons, classroom organization techniques, reproducible student worksheets, graphs, and a Journey North poster. You may preview programs at the Annenberg/CPB web site.

Programs

1. Introduction - This program introduces the three sets of investigations that are featured in the Journey North program: Seasonal Migrations, Plants and the Seasons and Sunlight and the Seasons. (10:57)

2. Seasonal Migration - One of Journey North’s most popular migration that of the monarch butterflies is featured in this program. (18:04)

3. Plants and Seasons - Join several Journey North classrooms as they become engaged in the study of tulip bulbs, and track their growth from fall to spring. (11:47)

4. Sunlight and Seasons - This program follows a number of classrooms as they try to find the exact location of 10 secret Mystery Classes located around the world. (16:49)

Air Dates

Fri, Sep 28, 2007 04:00:00 #000 1-4

Wed, Oct 24, 2007 04:00:00 #000 1-4

Mon, Feb 11, 2008 04:30:00 #000 1-4

Tue, Mar 04, 2008 04:00:00 #000 1-4

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