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Saw this on one of our bbs and remembering last years fun with the groundhog project, thought it would be of interest to many. Debbie Stafford Gen H.H. Arnold HS Wiesbaden stafford@email.wiesbaden.army.mil ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________________ Subject: HILITES> ANNOUNCING JOURNEY NORTH SPRING, 1996 Author: jn-register@learner.org (Journey North) at EDU-INTERNET Date: 12/21/95 11:35 AM Announcing Journey North: Spring, 1996 Engaging Students in a Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change Who: Students Across North America What: Track Wildlife Migration and Spring's Journey North When: Groundhog's Day Until Summer Vacation (February 2 - June 1, 1996) Where: On the Internet Visit Journey North at: http://www.learner.org/k12 How: Join Journey North's Internet Field Team! Read on..... ***************************************************** JOURNEY NORTH, 1996 Students Track Spring's Journey North This year, the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project is pleased to present Journey North, an annual Internet-based learning adventure that engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Beginning on Groundhog's Day (Feb. 2nd) students will travel northward with spring as it sweeps across the continent of North America. With global classmates and state-of-the-art computer technology, they'll predict the arrival of spring from half a world away. Migrations Up-to-the-minute news about a dozen migrations will be exchanged between classrooms as students report observations from their own home towns. Migrations to be tracked by Journey North this spring include: Monarch Butterflies, Robins, Bald Eagles, Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Peregrine Falcons, Right Whales, Humpback Whales, Loons, Orioles, Whooping Cranes, Caribou and migratory Bats of the Sonoran Desert! The dramatic journeys of several animals will be tracked by satellite. News will travel from the animals' transmitters to an orbiting satellite and then directly into the classroom via the Internet. This revolutionary technology will give students a bird's-eye view of the remarkable challenges faced by individual animals as they travel. Signs of Spring Linked to classrooms from the tropics to the tundra, students will conduct interactive, comparative studies of the natural world. In addition to following migrations, they will observe the local emergence of spring through studies of changing daylight, temperature and other signs of spring. For example, students will proclaim the official arrival of spring when tulips bloom in their communities. In this and other "Spring Fever" projects, classrooms investigate the relationship between geography, temperature and the arrival of spring. Together students gather, organize and analyze their own data. Using the Internet they can fit their local observations into a global context--essentially seeing that their small part of the world is part of a large, naturalsystem. How To Participate in Journey North There are 2 levels of participation available this year: LEVEL 1: Journey North News Reporters (Free) Become a Journey North News Reporter and share your wildlife observations over the Internet. Follow these steps to register your school as an official observation post: By E-mail Send an E-mail message to: jn-register@learner.org On the WWW Visit Journey North at: http://www.learner.org/k12 Registration is free and all are invited to participate! In exchange for your help you'll receive the Journey North News. News reports provide daily updates about wildlife and other signs of spring as collected by fellow reporters across the continent. LEVEL 2: Journey North's Internet Field Team ($39) (Includes all LEVEL 1 services.) New for 1996, the Internet Field Team is an enhancement designed to help integrate this project into your science, math and geography curriculum. As part of the Internet Field Team you will receive printed materials and special online services. Printed materials include a 100-page Teacher's Manual with 35 interdisciplinary lessons that can be used throughout the 4-month program. The manual is complete with reproducible student worksheets and graphs. Schedules and classroom organization techniques used by participating teachers will show you hot to integrate the program fully. Published as a 3-ring binder, teachers can add additional lessons and information as they are delivered online. The Journey North Migration Map (34" x 29") provides a visual overview of the program--real birds and butterflies, feathers and flowers surround a colorful map of North America, and each migratory species is pictured "down south" where its migration begins. As part of the Internet Field Team students engage in coordinated interactive projects with classrooms across the Hemisphere. Weekly Ask the Expert interviews connect students with Journey North scientists. Regular on-line data exchange, surveys, opinion polls and lesson plans make the most of your classroom's Internet connection. Registration for the Internet Field Team is available for $39 per class. All benefits of the Journey North News Reporter service (Level 1) are included. To order call 1-800-965-7373 or complete the attached Internet Field Team Order Form. Funding for this project is provided by: Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project for Elementary and High School Mathematics and Science Journey North 125 North First Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 E-Mail: jnorth@learner.org Fax: (612)339-7056 --------------------------------------------------------------- The HILITES projects list is a service of the Global SchoolNet Foundation. See our WWW pages at http://gsn.org Post your project announcements to hilites@gsn.org. To obtain project criteria send "info hilites" to majordomo@gsn.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe hilites" to majordomo@gsn.org.