Report: Thinkers' Club Session 4

Session # 4
Date: 24^th August, 2014

Attended by: 17 participants
Report Written by: Fatima Salman

Today we had the 4th Session of Thinkers Club. We began with a quick round of introduction and then came to the presentations on Migratory Birds. This was the home task of the last session. 

Several kids had done this task and many of the club members had made Powerpoint presentations. One by one, each person presented his or her work. (All the research work done by members will be shared on the blog) It happened to be very informative. 

We discussed the topic, Why Birds Migrate? Most people had done a lot of research work and the answer was weather changes, which is the main reason for migration. The birds also need a warmer climate for hatching their eggs, so breeding is also a reason.

We discussed their routes and found out many interesting facts. Like in a route map shared by a member, we saw that the migration routes of certain birds are different for going and different for returning.

We then discussed about How does a bird remember it's way back from exactly where it started? This may not seem a very important question, but it is! Because many animals have a sense of direction better than us humans. They also figure out their way through stars. They know which star to follow which will lead them to their destination.

We ended with the task to find out about how people follow stars in travelling, what stars do they follow, and some research about it.

Note: Another member has joined our club through Online participation. Her name is kenza and she lives in the UK. 

Here is another report written by another Club Member, Azka Javeria.

On the fourth session of The Thinker's Club dated 24th August 2014 ,we first had a quick recap of things we did earlier, and then we saw the lovely presentations on Migratory Birds by, Talha Arif, Isam Majeed and Affaan Haider, and Ayan Bin Salman. There were also writings by Muneeb Ilahi, Zainab Salman,and a really descriptive writing by Abiha Salman. A new girl joined us online today, named Kenza from UK and she also sent a very nice writing and a very interesting link to a map of routes of different migratory animals ( rspb.org.uk/youth/play/migrationmap.aspx) . Some facts were also shared like "A salmon comes back to die at the place where it was born." A very reasonable question came up afterwards, "How do animals know there way?" there were a lot of different answers, because these theories have not yet been prove. We were told that some animals rub of there scent on there way. Animals that travel at night use the stars as their guides. Even humans travel with the help of stars when they are at sea. Later on we were given two home tasks: (1) We had to write short reflections on this class. (2) We had to search how someone can find there way with the help of stars. It was a very interesting session and we learned a lot from it.