Distance Learning
- Grade Level:
- Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subject:
- Science
- State Standards:
- Next Generation Science Standards: 3-LS1.B, 3-LS4.D, 3-LS4.C, 4-ESS2.E, 4-ESS3.B, 5-LS2.A
Overview
Can’t make it to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore? We’ve got you covered with our new distance learning programs! The Great Lakes Piping Plover program will introduce your students to the endangered piping plover, what factors impact their survival, and how rangers at Sleeping Bear Dunes are making a big difference for this little bird. Complete a pre-visit lesson with your students, get a virtual visit from a ranger, and wrap things up with a post-visit lesson. Please contact us at e-mail us and tell us you’d like to schedule a Great Lakes Piping Plover distance learning program, and give us a preferred date for a test call and the virtual ranger visit.
Objectives
After completing these lessons, students will be able to:
- Create food web including piping plovers
- Make claims about how the elimination of piping plovers would affect food webs and the local ecosystem
- List facts about piping plovers and their lives.
- Persuade people to take actions to protect piping plovers
- List ways people can help protect piping plovers
- Identify threats to piping plovers habitat
Duration
Pre-visit lesson (1 hour), virtual ranger program (45 minutes-1 hour), post-visit lesson (1 hour)
Required Equipment
Distance Learning programs are being scheduled using various webcam software, often using what teachers are using in their classrooms.
There is also the option to use WebEx. This will require an internet connection and a separate phone line for the audio.
Participants will also need basic school supplies for pre-visit, post-visit, and virtual ranger program such as paper, pencils, markers, etc.
Materials
Download Piping Plover Preprogram Activity
Download Food Web Activity Sheet
Last updated: May 7, 2020