The aim of this scenario is to bring pupils in touch with the geographical characteristics of the stork migration route. The stork, being a migratory bird, moves in spring from Africa to Europe and in autumn the reverse.
Storks’ migration has some impressing characteristics such as the distance they daily cover, the height they can reach and the total distance they annually cover.
An exciting characteristic of their move is gliding which allows them to save energy. They get up in the air thanks to thermal air currents that appear up to the height of 700m over the land and they glide to the height of 400m. Then, they take advantage of a new thermal air current and repeat the procedure we just described.
The study of storks’ movement is nowadays being realized by the installment of satellite transmitters that periodically transmit information for storks’ location. This method has given us plenty of information regarding the migration of storks.
The scenario aims to a geospatial understanding of the storks’ migration route and draw conclusions with the contribution of the data given by the satellite.