Learning becomes fun with this book about Animal migration.
Backmatter Includes: Further information about the Mystery of Migration and the animals in the book.
Once again Marianne Berkes combines her teaching, writing, and theatrical skills to combine entertainment with education-creative nonfiction at its best.
The book is loaded with additional tips for teachers.
Why do they do it? How do they succeed? The ten featured species offer a broad representation of migration: loggerhead turtles, monarch butterflies, manatees, ruby-throated hummingbirds, Pacific salmon, Canada geese, California gray whales, caribou, Arctic tern, and emperor penguin.
Sometimes, as in the case of the monarch butterfly, a round-trip takes several generations.
For animals, Migration is a powerful compulsion, sometimes over long distances, often skipping meals.
In Going Home: The Mystery of Animal Migration , amazing artwork will inspire children in classrooms and at home to appreciate the world around us Teachers, you\'ll love this one, which is almost a whole unit on Migration wrapped in a winning combination of easy verse, factual language, and beautiful illustrations.
Learning becomes fun with this book about Animal migration
