Meeting National Standards

"Migration Science and Mystery: A Distance Learning Adventure” was designed to help teachers meet National Education Standards and your classroom goals and objectives.  The lesson plans correlate to the national science, math, English language arts, history and social studies, and visual arts standards. 

A chart showing how all of the lesson plans correlate with the National Education Standards is included in the “Explore the World with Shorebirds: Educator’s Guide for the Shorebird Sister Schools Program.”  This curriculum is contained on a CD-ROM, which is sent FREE to all those who REGISTER for this program. 

For a chart of showing how all of the lesson plans specifically relate to the National Science Education Standards, CLICK HERE. 

The following National Science Education Standards are addressed in the lesson plans:

Unifying Concepts and Processes

• Systems, order, and organization
• Evidence, models, and explanation
• Constancy, change, and measurement
• Evolution and equilibrium
• Form and function

Content Standard A: Science as Inquiry

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• Understanding about scientific inquiry

Content Standard C: Life Science

• Structure and function in living systems
• Reproduction and heredity
• Regulation and behavior
• Populations and ecosystems
• Diversity and adaptations of organisms

Content Standard E: Science and Technology

• Abilities of technological design
• Understandings about science and technology
• Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans

Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives

• Personal health
• Populations, resources, and environments
• Natural hazards
• Risks and benefits
• Science and technology in society

Content Standard G: History and Nature of Sciences

• Science as a human endeavor
• Nature of science
• History of science