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Challenge Question #4

Allison Bailey (bailey_a@popmail.firn.edu)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:52:29 +0000

Miss Bailey's Class
Citrus Elementary School
Vero Beach, FL

Challenge question #4 was very interesting. While my class was quick to
agree that the data on the table showed that fewer monarchs had been
seen this year than last, after looking at the data from the other years
we were divided on whether this year's numbers were much lower than
usual. Some students noticed a pattern of two years of lower numbers
followed by a year with a larger migration. Here is a sampling of the
responses my students wrote in their journals:

I think the data collected so far at Cape May, NJ shows there are fewer
monarchs than usual. My reason is I think it is smaller numbers.
Deandres Bellamy - Grade 2

I don't think the data collected so far at Cape May, NJ shows there are
fewer monarchs than usual. My reason is year 1992 was less butterflies
of all the years. So I think no.
Anthony Powers - Grade 3

I don't think the data collected so far at Cape May, NJ shows there are
fewer monarchs than usual. My reason is because I notice that it goes
like higher, lower, higher, lower each year.
Jessica Aubrey - Grade 3