The suggestions below will help you integrate Journey North's real-time program in the classroom. This guide accompanies the Monarch Migration Update for November 3, 2006.

This week's two topics each has its own Teacher Guide. See:

• Teacher Guide for Monarchs, Dia de los Muertos, and Mexican Tradition
  
• Teacher Guide for The Location of the Monarch Overwintering Sites in Mexico
  Why is This Place So Special for Monarchs?

1) Suggestions for Assessment: The Fall Migration Season
Now that the fall monarch migration is drawing to a close, it's a good time for students to reflect on what they have learned during the journey. The following activities and journal pages will help you assess student-understanding:

Habitat and Migration	The Geography of Monarch Migration	Traveling With a Monarch: Tell the Story of Fall Migration	Link to these Suggestions for Assessment

2) Migration Rate Math: Who DID see the strongest migration?
Review this fall's most impressive observations you recorded on your Fall 2006 Record Sheet, and review the favorites you put on your own Migration Highlights Map.

• Journal Prompt: What does fall migration look like? When and where should a person go to see the migration? Describe the ordinary and extraordinary sights a person might expect to see.

• Back to Monarch Migration Update: November 3, 2006