Schools pack World on the Move A resource for KS2 Educational activities by Brenda Casey and Michele Fox The BBC Schools Pack World on the Move was sponsored by the British Council<#> BBC schools pack World on the Move A resource for KS2 Educational activities written by Brenda Casey and Michele Fox Designed and edited by Dovetail Creative Limited Poster illustration © Rebecca Canavan Contents Introduction to the pack 2 World on the Move World Class 2 Introducing migration 3 Four familiar birds 6 Climate change 8 The Good Guest * 9 Cuckoo Melokotay * 11 The Swan Maiden 13 A Tale of Complaint About Starlings * 15 Activity ideas 17 Activity sheets 22 Resources 31 World on the Move form 32 * These works were specially commissioned for this pack Credits RSPB – Scientific material and photographs: Time to Fly by Jim Flegg, British Trust for Ornithology, 2004 BTO – Scientific material and photographs, with special thanks to The Swan Maiden: Joseph Jacobs, European Folk and Fairy Tales Graham Appleton. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916 Individual photo credits: Book: starling p6 © John Harding; Cuckoo Melokotay: Michael Daniel Ambetchew swallow, whooper swan p6 © Jill Pakenham; illustrations of barnacle The Good Guest: Mildred Kiconco Barya goose & bar-tailed godwit p22 courtesy of Mike Langman (rspb- A Tale of Complaint About Starlings Henryk Siewierski – translated images.com) Cover: swallow © Jill Pakenham. Poster: Whooper into English by Basia and Tony Howard swan istockphoto © Liz Leyden; swallow © Jill Pakenham. © BBC 2008 Introduction to the pack Introducing migration The World on the Move resource pack is inspired by BBC Radio 4’s World on the Move Migration was a mystery for hundreds Migration is an extreme life strategy that helps series and offers a range of activities to promote partnership with overseas schools of years. Why did some insects, birds animals 'get the best of both worlds'. As well as through a focus on bird and animal migration, although they work just as well for and animals disappear in one season moving north, some animals also migrate: schools working without partners. The pack's inclusive nature allows pupils of all abilities and come back the next year? Where • where there is a rainy season which makes to participate fully, as well as providing a wealth of ways to extend the more able. The did they go, and why? There were some lush new vegetation grow – such as in the tropics, the sub-tropics and deserts; the activities promote a range of knowledge, skills and understanding, in particular: wild ideas. Some people thought that Barnacle geese hatched from barnacles Okavanga Delta in Botswana, for instance; • Observational skills • Creating and shaping texts that live attached to rocks by the sea. • when the conditions that are best for • Thinking skills • Understanding different cultural perspectives Others thought swallows hibernated in growing up in are very different from the • Geographical skills through fiction and poetry mud. Although scientists have learned a place where they are born. For example, many fish live in the sea but migrate up • Geometry • Opportunities for extended use of ICT with a real lot about migration, there's still a lot they • Data handling and exciting purpose rivers to spawn. Atlantic salmon live in the don't know. Atlantic, but swim miles up rivers in Scotland to spawn where they were born. Activities address the KS2 requirements of the Primary Strategies for Literacy and What is migration? Mathematics and the National Curriculum Progammes of Study in foundation subjects Migration is when birds and animals move To go or not to go? and ICT. Their flexible, cross-curricular character is supportive of the creative, topic-based from one place to another and back again in a What makes birds and animals decide when regular cycle, usually connected to the seasons. approach to teaching advocated by the Revised Strategies. to start their migration? Is it feeling good? Migrations can be long or short. The common the weather? body condition? a leader? All pages with a © symbol can be scanned onto computer for shared use on the IWB, toad migrates up to one kilometre to get back temperature? The answer is probably some, or or photocopied for paired/group work. Projects that are particularly suitable for to the pond where it was born. The Alaskan all, of these. Here are two examples. sharing with partner schools are marked with a z. Use the interactive site at bar-tailed godwit (a wading bird) flies 11 000 Monarch butterfly www.elanguages.org/38066 to share your work. kilometres, from Alaska to New Zealand every year. Such long journeys are dangerous and The Monarch butterfly lives in the forests of Read about finding a partner school below and see the form on page 32. extremely hard work, so it’s not surprising that Mexico, but migrates north as far as Canada people wonder why they bother. in summer. No single butterfly flies the whole way up. New butterflies are born all along the World on the Move World Class Why do animals migrate? journey, as they move north with the warmer Twin your school on bird migration paths. Join World Class and we will share your Animals have migrated almost since they have weather in Spring. It is the great, great, great interest with our partners who will help you twin. The DCSF Global Gateway team at the existed in order to find plenty of food and an grandchild of a butterfly leaving Mexico that reaches the north. Then it turns around and flies British Council will co-ordinate this process and help you explore the options – such as ideal place to raise their young. Climate change has always been a major factor in migration and, the whole way south (up to 4500 km) to spend e-twinning or managed links via NGOs. Some links are free, and some have around 10 000 years ago, at the peak of the last the winter and breed in Mexico. The return administration charges. We’ve suggested these four familiar birds and their migration ice age, it all began again. At this time, the ice in journey is the longest-known insect migration in countries – or tell us your idea and we will help you. Then you can share projects from the northern hemisphere reached as far south as the world. this schools pack with your twin school. Join World Class at: www.bbc.co.uk/worldclass London and to the same level all across Europe, Why do they do this? Eurasia and North America. Once it started to Because no adult would Icelandic Whooper Starling(Poland) melt, more and more land began to appear live long enough to further north from under the ice. migrate north and still swan (Iceland) Starlings live in the UK all year, As this land started to recover, plants began have the energy left but are joined by others from These swans migrate in the to grow, making rich new feeding grounds for to breed. Temperature Poland and other countries in autumn, arriving in the UK in insects, birds and animals. They moved there and the length of the Eastern Europe from October October, where they overwinter. because there was lots of food and not so many day are what make the to March. They return to Iceland in March. other animals competing to eat it. In these far butterflies start their northern places, the summer days were longer, migration north and it's the land was more productive and it was easier the same when they head south. Cuckoo(Ethiopia) Swallow(South Africa) to raise babies successfully. This is how evolution has helped the Monarch butterfly to keep such a high population in Cuckoos visit the UK between Swallows can be seen in the UK At this time, too, the Sahara was a rich grassland Mexico. If they didn't migrate, there wouldn't be May and September and you between March and October. with feeding hot-spots. Many birds carry on their nearly enough food plants in Mexico for so many are more likely to hear than see They fly two routes across the instinctive migrations, although the ecology has butterflies – and they can't live all the time in them. They are harder to spot African continent: via the west changed and the Sahara is now a desert and very in Africa as they call much less. But scientists are coast or the Rift Valley. difficult to cross. North America because it gets too cold. keen to know more about where they go. 2 <#>3 © Icelandic Whooper swan Magnetic sense How do they have the energy? The godwit keeps flying on its fat and protein, The Icelandic Whooper It seems that some animals can sense changes Every animal that migrates has to be a peak each one reducing at an equal rate. This system swan spends winter in the in the earth’s magnetic field. The earth is performer: a long-distance flier, swimmer, runner works so well that it has about 1000 km of spare UK and breeds in Iceland. surrounded by a magnetic field that runs from or walker. All animals get ready for migration energy in case it's blown off-course and has to fly In any one year, these birds north to south and follows the shapes of the by feeding themselves up. Some actually make a bit longer than expected. migrate as families. land and the seabed. These shapes, and the changes to their body. The bird arrives in New Zealand with no gut, different rock types they're made of, give any much smaller flight muscles, less blood and just When they decide to move The Alaskan bar-tailed godwit south is mainly due to the place on earth a unique magnetic picture.