Birds and Migration (Grades 6-8)

How does a songbird that has never made the journey find its way across a continent — at night, alone, with no map? The Migration Archive holds the clues, and Archivist Corvin is opening it to a new class of researchers. Over 12 missions (about three weeks), students decode the science of navigation — magnetic fields, star maps, and internal clocks — analyze real citizen-science bird-count data, and investigate the pressures reshaping migration today: habitat loss, climate shift, and light pollution. The work is rigorous: reasoning with large numbers and scientific notation, interpreting datasets, and building evidence-based arguments that connect biology, geography, and environmental science. Printable and low-prep (one online citizen-science data lookup; otherwise just a printer), with a full answer key. What's Inside: -12 mission-based sessions across 3 weeks, building to a capstone research report -Bird-navigation science, citizen-science datasets, and the real threats to migration -Data analysis, scientific notation, and evidence-based scientific writing -A full answer key and a [Migration Archivist of Mosswood] certificate -Part of the Science series. ESA-eligible — pay with your ESA where your program covers curriculum.