INTRODUCTION TO OSPREY

PRE-ACTIVITY: (One forty minute lesson) Students will be introduced to information

and important facts about ospreys.

Students will:

1. Read about ospreys.

2. Create fact sheets to be used in a post-activity osprey migration game.

3. Write a short vignette about one day in the life of a male osprey

Introduction/Motivation: Video/web cam of osprey.

1. Osprey camera at Blackwater Reservoir,

Maryland

www.friendsofblackwater.org/osprey.html

OR

2. Osprey nest camera at Loch Garten, Scotland

www.rspb.org.uk/webcams/

Jigsaw Reading and Fact Sheet Activity:

In groups of four each student will:

1. Be given reading material about ospreys differentiated according to reading

ability. ( 1 low, 2 medium, 1 high level)

2. Based on the reading material, create a fact sheet of at least ten facts to be

shared with the group and used for the post-activity osprey migration game.

Assessment: Quick write about “A day in the life of a Male Osprey named __________”.

ACTIVITY: OSPREY MIGRATION LESSON

POST-ACTIVITY: (One forty minute lesson) Students will play the Osprey Migration

game. The person who arrives “home” first wins the game.