Posted by Laurie Sullivan at 12/15/2011

The second grade students either participated in the Migration Game or the Build-A-Bird app on the iPads. The students will have an opportunity to complete each activity when they visit the Discovery Lab in January. Below is an overview of the lesson this week. The lesson began with a review from the last visit to the Discovery Lab. Some students shared an idea they had come up with for making a difference in our community. We will be meeting at lunch next week to develop the idea. Half of the students stayed in the Discovery Lab with their classroom teacher and ITC Mr. Delventhal. They worked with the iPads using the Build-A-Bird app. For the Migration Game, students chose to be a specific type of bird. Then they rolled the die to determine the station where to begin their migration. These students started at Station 3. Unfortunately they landed in a polluted wetland and got sick. This slowed their migration. Two sick birds Some students ended up at the Bird Banding Station. Birds at the banding station This bird landed in a wonderful habitat Student birds along the migration route Read the sign to find out what happened to these two birds These birds completed a successful migration Another successful migration Students shared what helped or hindered them on the migration Student sharing and adding to the two categories on our migration chart “Helpful” or “Harmful” A student bird took this photo of Dr. Sullivan writing on the Migration chart. Migration Chart (Sorry about the sloppy writing…we were running out of time) Migration Chart by another class Migration Chart by another group of students