Animal Migration - Navigation

In our class this morning we have been looking at the methods Animals use to Navigate during their migrations.

Methods include:

• Visual Cues (Birds, Insect)
• Solar Navigation (Bird, Bees)
• Magnetic Fields (Homing pigeons, Cetaceans, Salmonids)
• Stellar Navigation (Birds)
• Chemical Navigation (Eels, Salmon)
• Sound used as Sonar (Cetaceans)

Animal Magnetism: How Animals Navigate - YouTube: ""

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Aposematic Coloration - YouTube

Aposematic Coloration - YouTube: ""

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Carl Sagan - COSMOS - Evolution - YouTube

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Group Hunting in Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees team up to attack a monkey in the wild - BBC wildlife - YouTube: ""

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NZQA Assessment resources

Have you visited the NZQA Website? This link will take you the resources for our internal assessments this year. Please make use of this information as other students in school throughout New Zealand certainly will be (intra-specific competition?). The most helpful parts are probably the assessment schedules for the achievement standards. Use these documents to guide your efforts as you carry out and write up your investigations during term one.
The Student Exemplars are also very helpful in clarifying what is required for Achieved. Merit or Excellence.