Migration Maze
Field Study 3
Overview: Students play a game simulating food availability through each season. Each round students role play different insects
Location: Outdoors
Learner Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe what season has the most food available for animals.
Materials
- Season Symbols
- Migrate, Hibernate or Stay Card
Adapted from:
How Many Bears Can Live in the Forest. Project WILD
Ask..
Is every season the same? What changes during the seasons? What happens to an animals food and home when a season changes?
Explain..That animals have to adapt (change how they live) to the survive in different seasons These changes might cause them to change where they live (to migrate) in the fall and how they live in the winter (to hibernate) in order to survive.
Do…
- Have students group up
and then choose 4 students and have each one pick a season card. Don't
let them show any one their card and have them stand in front of the
group. Pick one at random to shout out their season then have the students
choose to Migrate, Hibernate or Stay.
- Once they have chosen what to do. Then have them play "Mother May I" . If it was Migrate those saying Mother May I move forward 1 step, Hibernate they move back 1 step and if they chose stay then they stay in the same place (Spring and Summer). Those who do not say "Mother May I" do not Survive. In the end see how far you move from your home territory.