Home Plan - [GR2-L6-U1-LC1-37 The Magic of Migration]

The document discusses animal migration across three sections. Levels 6 Lesson 37 covers various tips and objectives for students to understand migration, focusing on animals like birds, fish, and insects, the reasons behind their journeys, survival challenges they face, and comprehension activities related to these topics. The subsequent section delves into specific examples of animal migrations in search of food and water, such as wildebeests in Africa, different bird species, and fish like salmon. It also details how animals navigate during migration, using different cues and senses. The final section highlights the migration of marine creatures like humpback whales and sea turtles, discussing various reasons for migration and the mysteries surrounding how these animals locate specific destinations. Overall, the document showcases the fascinating and essential phenomenon of migration for diverse species.

Contents

• Pages 1—27: Migration learning objectives
• Pages 28—45: Animal migration patterns
• Pages 46—58: Marine animal migrations

This section of the document provides tips and learning objectives for Level 6 Lesson 37. Students are encouraged to use content words, ask and answer questions as a reading strategy, and identify cause and effect relationships in events related to migration. Various examples of migrating creatures are mentioned like birds, animals in Africa, and fish like salmon. Students are guided to understand new vocabulary words by looking at pictures, learning definitions, and reading sample sentences. The text discusses migration as the term used by scientists to describe animal journeys, involving various types of animals such as birds, bats, whales, turtles, grazers like caribou and wildebeests, salmon, and insects. The reading also explains the reasons for migration, patterns followed, and survival instincts of animals during the journey. The dangers involved in migration due to threats from predators, weather conditions, ocean currents, hunters, and fishermen are highlighted, emphasizing the importance of migration for survival despite the risks. Additionally, comprehension skills are applied by identifying causes of danger in migration and its effects, such as many migrating creatures dying due to various hazards confronted during their journey.

The section discusses animal migrations in search of food and water. It highlights the migration patterns of wildebeests in Africa due to drought, where they travel in large herds to find new sources of food and water. Additionally, it mentions how various birds, such as warblers, flycatchers, storks, pelicans, and terns, migrate annually to find food. The text also touches on how some fish, like salmon and trout, migrate to freshwater streams to spawn, while others, like eels, migrate to the open sea to spawn. Furthermore, it explains how animals navigate during migration, with some using their sense of smell, stars, sun, coastlines, mountains, and Earth’s magnetic field to find their way. The section also discusses how monarch butterflies migrate from North America to Mexico and the southern US for winter using specific trees in the mountains and how they return north in the spring to breed and reproduce.

This section of the document discusses the migration of various marine creatures, such as humpback whales, lobsters, sharks, sea turtles, and tuna. It mentions how some sea turtles follow ocean currents to navigate through vast oceans. Scientists are still puzzled about how these creatures precisely locate the right beach to lay their eggs. Additionally, it talks about animals migrating every year to find food, water, better weather, or nesting spots. Migration is described as a magical journey taken by various creatures, either alone or in flocks, for different reasons like raising their young. The text also prompts readers to consider sorting migrating animals based on why they migrate, how they travel, or common characteristics.