Classroom Activities for Flying Over Alabama

VIDEOS

Flying Over Alabama: The Whooping Crane Story
Cranes-Size, Habitat, and Nest
New Chicks
Chick Training
Endangered
Costume: Are You My Mother?
The Puppet
Early Flight Training
Sibling Rivalry
Crane Aerodynamics
Weather
What It's Like to Fly with the Birds
Behind the Scenes: Takeoff in Chilton County, Alabama
How Big is a Crane?
How to Fly an Ultralight
What Do Cranes Eat?
Tracking the Birds
Life on the Road
Pens and Predators
Winter Homes

ACTIVITIES FOR THE CLASSROOM

APTPLUS™ Classroom Activities
Journey North Activites

APTPLUS™ Classroom Activites

Whooping Crane Prompt - Long Legs
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This is a writing prompt for elementary students.

Alabama Map Activity
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This is an activity that allows students to explore the stops the cranes made in Alabama. It also allows the students to research and compute the number of days they stayed at each stop.

Produced in partnership with Operation Migration, 2009.
Many thanks to Journey North.