Special attention is paid to environmental conditions that may have contributed to an animal's death. Students monitor roads that they travel to and from school. The purpose of this project is to give students an understanding of the natural world around them. Roadways have divided natural corridors for many species of wildlife, and roadkill statistics are evidence of this phenomenon. The journeys of a dozen migratory species are tracked each spring through this collaborative project.
Students share their own field observations with classrooms across the hemisphere.
In addition, students are linked with scientists who provide their expertise directly to the classroom. Several migrations are tracked by satellite telemetry, providing live coverage of individual animals as they migrate. This site provides guidelines for collaborating in the global classroom whether you are participating with an existing collaborative project or developing one of your own.