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Don Davis

Toronto, ON

Secretary/Treasurer

The Friends of Presqu'ile Park

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We are putting the finishing touches on the totally revised 2nd edition of

the Monarchs in the Classroom curriculum guides. These guides are for the

same 3 levels (K-2, 3-6, 6-8), and have additional material in each

section, plus a few new sections. The guides will be slightly over 200

pages long. They are organized as follows:

Monarch Biology (background)

How-to's (background on rearing, making cages, catching butterflies)

Life Cycle Curriculum

Migration and Overwintering Curriculum

Systematics Curriculum

Experiments with Monarchs Curriculum

Conservation curriculum

Ecology Curriculum

Monarch Bibliography

Blacklines (for making overheads, lots of great art=21)

Vocabulary

The cost of these guides will be =2416.50, including shipping. They will b=
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of higher quality print, have many more student and teacher pages and

illustrations, and have easier-to-use bindings. The revisions were made by=

a focus group of Minnesota and one Nebraska teacher this summer working

with Karen Oberhauser and Liz Goehring at the University of Minnesota, with=

many suggestions coming from 46 teachers who took our one and two-week

courses this summer.

WE WILL NO LONGER TAKE ORDERS FOR THE OLD GUIDES. If you would like to

order new guides, please send a check made out to the University of

Minnesota Monarch Fund to the address at the bottom of this message. If

you are ordering more than eight guides, we can invoice you with the actual=

cost of shipping. BE SURE TO SPECIFY WHICH GRADE LEVEL YOU'D LIKE (K-2,

3-6 or 6-8).

Other items that we provide include:

1. Monarch Caterpillar Field Guide by Karen Oberhauser and Kris Kuda (=248

including shipping; the price in the tagging newsletter was an error)

2. Slide sets on the monarch life cycle and migration (23 slides/set for

=2421 including shipping)

Karen Oberhauser and Liz Goehring

Karen Oberhauser

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

University of Minnesota

1987 Upper Buford Circle

St. Paul MN 55108

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