Discussion of Challenge Question #11
Which Pattern Best Matches the Migration?

Students across the map, from New Jersey, New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Arkansas, came together to analyze these migration patterns:

Migration Patterns
A	B	C	D

They chose Patterns A and D for the following reasons:

Pattern A

• Last year, about the same time, the monarchs had been following the same paths.
• Monarchs have spent time in all three directions.
• They are going to go all over the United States of America.
• They travel in all different directions when they're going to Canada.
• The wind is making them take these routes.

Pattern D

• They follow the warming temperatures.
• They follow the milkweed, because that's where all the food is.
• The weather we have been having has blown the monarchs northwest.
• They are moving but they are not completely leaving the South.
• They go back to where they came from.

Which pattern do you think the migration matches best? How has the pattern changed in the two weeks since they made their analysis?

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