"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
These lessons and activities have been created by teachers for teachers and people who want to learn more about these incredible birds while having fun. They include topics such as Ecology, Geography, Art, English, Climate Change, and Plastic Pollution. Albatrosses are wonderful ambassadors of the ocean and our 2020-2021 Earth Honoree. They teach us about ecology, ocean health, marine debris, and […]
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Because we know that a lot of you like coloring, we wanted to share this special resource full of albatross that you can color. Click on the picture and you will get its coloring version. This activity comes from APAC.
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It is very sad to say that plastic is what is in the stomach of an Albatross. It is one of the reasons why Albatross and their chicks die prematurely. Here are a few videos that are worth watching. You can then engage a conversation with your children/students to reflect on our daily consumption of plastic. John Klavitter, the deputy […]
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The classroom activity package Winged Ambassadors – Ocean Literacy through the Eyes of Albatross is available free online courtesy of NOAA, Oikonos, and other partners. Albatrosses, charismatic and threatened seabirds, are ambassadors for a clean ocean because they traverse vast oceanic regions searching for floating food. Along their journeys, they ingest plastic trash and feed it to their chicks. These five lessons […]
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Here is a very special piece made by Peter Winch who has been an Education Specialist at the Greater Farallones Association for the past 15 years. Before then Peter worked as a biological technician studying seabirds. He spent 5 months on French Frigate Shoals in 1996, and 3 months on Laysan Island in 1996/97.Peter also works as a naturalist for Oceanic Society where […]
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The A Perfect Day for an Albatross Educator’s Guide features eight pages of activities that target national science, math, writing, and art education standards for grades 1-3. Here is the link to this 8 pages PDF activity book.https://www.pacificbeachcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NEW-Albatross-Educational-Guide-v2.pdf
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Fun Facts About Wisdom Now thought to be at least 70 years old and hatched 40 or more chicks, she just hatched another chick on Feb 1st 2021. And because Wisdom is probably 70 years it means that she has logged over 3 BILLION miles! Sporting the red ankle band Z333, she is at least 70 this year, the oldest-known […]
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