Project Summary: We were tracking the caribou on a large map on the wall of our classroom.  Every couple of weeks we would receive the latitude and longitude of our caribou and would spend a few minutes putting a sticker on the map to show where our caribou was. We numbered each of the points and drew lines on the maps so we could follow their paths over the year. Many of our caribou died during the project and one was lost. It was neat to see where the caribou was travelling and we had many questions that we asked the biologist who was sending us the information.

Below we have included a few pictures and a summary of some of the caribou.

Click on the Caribou's name and you will be able to find out some information about

where it travelled while we were watching it:

My caribou' s name is George Bush. The collar number is 98101201. The herd this caribou is a part of is the Leaf River herd. The total number of the data points that we got was 10. The closest town that the caribou is right now near Tasiujaq. My caribou travelled 303 km so far.	This is George Bush's track.
My caribou's name is Saddam. This caribou is a female from the George River herd. She has collar number 98061103.	My caribou's name is Sindy. The collar number is 20031011003. It is a George River herd. We received 9 data points. The total distance is 852 km. Sindy is now closest to the town of Tasiujaq.
My caribou's name is George Bush 2. GB2 has travelled 284 km over 6 data points. Her collar number is 20031011007 and she is from the Leaf River herd.
My caribou's name is Rita MacNeil. It's collar number is 20000611009. My caribou is a part of the George River herd. It has travelled 1045 km. It was not close to any town where it was last seen.	My caribou's name is Jackie Chan. My caribou travelled 178 km. Then the caribou died. The collar number is 20020611004. We received only 4 data points for him. This caribou was last seen near Kuujjuaq.
	My caribou's name is Princess. Her collar number is 9902102. She travelled 1715 so far. So far the data dots we got are 14 dots. This caribou was closest to a town named Inukjuak. She is a Leaf River herd. This caribou is a FEMALE.
My caribou's name is Homer. It is from the Leaf River Herd and has collar number 99061201. We have received 13 data points for Homer and so far it travelled 1344 km. Even though we called this caribou Homer it is actually a female.	My caribou's name is Britney Spears. She travelled only 93 km and then she died. We only received 4 data points about her and she was from the George River herd.
My caribou's name is Mrs. Bush. Her collar number was 96041206 and she was from the Leaf River herd. Unfortunately she died after only one data point.
	My caribou's name is Roly Poly Oly. We used a flower sticker to show this caribou on the map. It has collar number 20020611001 and is a part of the George River herd. We collected 10 data points so far for this caribou and in that time it travelled about 488 km.
My caribou's name is Ray. This is a female caribou from the George River herd. This caribou was one that we were given information on in November to replace one of the caribou that had died. Ray's collar number is 20031011005.	My caribou's name is Olsen. She had collar number 2003061206. She is in the Leaf River herd and we have received 13 points for her. So far she has travelled 1587 km. Between points 5 and 6, she travelled 571 km. We were so surprised she could go that far in such a short time.
Some of our caribou travelled farther than we could show on the maps we had.

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