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Teacher’s Guide: Episode 6

Tracking Turkeys

Learn more about continuing efforts to improve and protect New Hampshire’s wild turkey population. Turkey biologists tell us about the science behind wild turkey protection, sharing research processes from rocket-netting to banding to feeding studies. Length: 7:24 minutes
  • Program Objectives

Students will:

  1. Explain why the common tern population almost disappeared from the Isles of Shoals.
  2. Describe the role the black-backed gull and the American herring gull played in declines in the common tern population.
  3. Explain the strategies scientists are using to discourage gulls from nesting on the Isles of Shoals.
  4. Describe some of the techniques scientists are using to encourage the common tern to nest on the Isles of Shoals.
  • Pre-Viewing Activities

Have students list reasons why the population of common terns might have declined in New Hampshire.

  • Post-Viewing Activities
  1. Have students discuss why non-lethal methods were used to drive gulls away from the Isles of Shoals.
  2. Have students contact NH Fish and Game and find out what the current population of common terns is on the Isles of Shoals.

Vocabulary

Tracking Turkeys Teacher’s Guide Quiz

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