Information for Teachers

How to Use

The site is designed to serve 3-8 students and their teachers. Its goal is to spark interest and action regarding migration in our rapidly changing world. Its goal is to serve students and teachers in the sciences and the arts with a special focus on dance. It invites interaction in the form of student groups contributing their own further research, personal experiences, reflection on migration stories and most importantly their own creative products in response to this issue.

This site functions as a hub to more extensive informational websites. Each page for a specific animal or human population has links to 1) YouTube videos that illustrate the page topic, and 2) more in depth websites n the page topic.

Please feel free to send us feedback about the usefulness to your teaching goals of this website and any concerns that we should address.

History

This site is an educational outreach tool to facilitate the goals of the performance work, "Migrations," a project under the direction of choreographer David J Popalisky.

This website reflects the collaborative work of Professor David J Popalisky, MFA Santa Clara University Department of Theatre and Dance, Professor Janice Edgerly-Rooks, Ph.D. Biology Department, Santa Clara University and her advanced biology students, Gloria Hofer, Media Specialist, and Callie Tepper and Marie Galetto, research assistants to Professor Popalisky. Special thanks to Marie Galetto for her work to complete the vision for this site in the summer of 2010.