JOURNEY NORTH:
www.learner.org/jnorth
Exploring the Journey North web site
This exercise will give you familiarity in the following areas:
1. Navigating through a web site.
2. Learning more about the Journey North project.
3. Providing you with an example of lessons and projects that exist on the web for use in your classroom.
You will see three links at the top of the web site. You will navigate through these links in order to answer some questions listed below. The links are:
· About Journey North
· Registration for 1999/2000 season
· Journey North Archives (1995-1999)
(Remember to click on the BACK button when you need to go to a previous page.)
About Journey North (please click on this link)
Read through these pages and click on the link for spring, 1999 and fall, 1999. Briefly jot down some ideas about how "Journey North" might be used to teach any three of the following subjects…
v Math-
v Science-
v Social Studies-
v Art-
v Any other subjects?
Registration for 1999/2000 season
1. How can you register for this site?
2. Is there a fee to register? If so, what are the benefits of paying this fee?
3. What is the cost of the Teacher's manual? What does it contain?
Journey North Archives (1995-1999)
1. Please list three animals that were tracked in the spring, 1995 study.
2. Now list three animals that were tracked in the spring, 1999 study.
3. Were the animals in the 1995 and 1999 studies the same?
4. In the spring, 1999 study archive, click on the “Mystery Class (Photoperiod)”. Now click on the FINAL Mystery Class Update: May 14, 1999 and tell us where four of the participating mystery classrooms were located.
Spring's Journey North
Please click on this icon and use your best web-navigational skills to determine how many "Right Whales" have been sighted near the Stellwagon Bank off the coast of Massachusetts so far this spring (2000).
How could you use the Journey North site in your classroom?