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Grade 3 Science · World 6: Adaptation Station · Level 41
Migration
Explain why some animals travel with the seasons, like monarchs and sea turtles.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 41
- Instead of sleeping through winter, some animals travel. Moving to a new place when the seasons change is called migration.
- Monarch butterflies fly all the way to Mexico each fall, up to 3,000 miles!
- Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds nest in Georgia in summer, then fly to Central America for the winter.
- North Atlantic right whales, Georgia's state marine mammal, swim to the warm ocean off our coast in winter to have their babies.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S3L1.b — Construct an explanation of how external features and adaptations (camouflage, hibernation, migration, mimicry) of animals allow them to survive in their habitat.