The EOF curriculum includes an interactive web site, educational software, and a Teacher’s Resource Guide with student worksheets. Other teaching resources include PowerPoint presentations, large wall maps to plot near real time animal tracking locations, overhead transparencies, and posters.

Through the Eye of the Falcon web site, students can use our “GIS Maps” page to access satellite tracking data that have been collected over the past decade for a wide range of species, as well as tracking data from ongoing projects in near real-time. Students can use our web-based GIS software to generate maps to examine the relationships between animal movements and a wide range of landscape and environmental variables. The web site also features information pages containing detailed background information on avian taxonomy, evolution, migration, ecosystems and biomes, species descriptions, research project descriptions, the technology scientists have developed to study animal movements, and much more.

The Eye of the Falcon CD-ROM is available for schools with no access to the Internet. The CD-ROM contains all of the information on the web site except for the real-time tracking data.

The Teacher's Resource Guide includes theme-based modules and extensions with opportunities for more in-depth exploration. This structure provides teachers with a wide range of options for implementation of the program: they may choose one module to teach as a stand-alone unit over a short period of time, they may teach several modules as a semester-long curriculum, or they may incorporate different modules into a multi-year program of study. Each module consists of:

a. Easy to follow, 3-step lesson plans: Think-About-It, Activity, and Review/Assessment
b. Lists of learning objectives, vocabulary words, and materials needed
c. References to national standards
d. Experiential learning activities that introduce a topic or concept
e. A field-based research project that focuses on local ecosystems, wildlife and natural resources (including urban ecosystems)
f. A GIS-based activity using the EOF web site or software
g. Student guides and worksheets for each lesson
h. Background information for teachers
i. A list of bibliographic and web-based resources
j. Tools for pre- and post-assessment

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