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Migration Update: October 23, 2007
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Today's
Report Includes:
- Headquarters
is Bursting with Butterflies
- Migration:
The Symbolic Migration Map >>
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- A
Sight to Behold!
- Lessons:
Hopeful Partners in Conservation >>
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- Explore!
Geographic Puzzler
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Do
you see your butterfly? Heidi has a little
fun while sorting and packing your butterflies.
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Headquarters
is Bursting with Butterflies! |
With
the deadline here and gone, it seems the Journey North headquarters
is bursting at the seams with your beautiful butterflies.
For many days we hauled box after box from the mail trucks daily! As each
and every envelope arrives we check all its contents. We want to make sure
of a safe return of butterflies back to each of you in the spring. |
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Journey
North staff and volunteers have been taking on the enormous
task of processing the big beautiful butterfly cargo in preparation
for the rest of its migration to Mexico. (Beth Allen, in
charge of the Symbolic Monarch, oversees the entire project.
Thank you, Beth!).
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| Migration:
The Symbolic Migration
Map |
It
All Starts in Your Classroom
If you remembered to report to Journey
North after sending off your butterflies, you will see your
school represented on our new map!
Click the map to view a live map. Check it out! |
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| A
Sight to Behold! |
"Wow!
Look at this one – it’s amazing," "This
one’s an ambassador! Look at the details," "Every
one--so different!" These are just a few of the exclamations
coming from our workers as they open your packages of symbolic
butterflies headed for Mexico.
Like beautiful snowflakes, each unique butterfly demonstrates a caring and interest
in monarch safety and conservation. The message is loud and clear, “Thank
you for taking care of our Monarchs!”
| Sneak
Preview of the Symbolic Migration Art Gallery |
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Ambassador
Butterflies >>
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Sensationally
Symmetrical >> |
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| Lessons:
Hopeful Partners in Conservation |
Journey
North's celebration symbolizes a hopeful partnership between
Canada, the United States, and Mexico as this fragile butterfly
crosses borders. As you follow the migrations of real and
symbolic butterflies this year, plan to look for similarities
and differences between the migrations. Keep a list of
comparisons all year in your Journal and watch it grow.
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Journaling
Questions:
- Who
is responsible for the monarchs at each stage of their lives?
- What
happens when the butterflies cross national borders?
- What
obstacles might they encounter during their migration?
These
butterflies are a shared natural resource. Symbolic
Migration Lessons help reinforce the spirit and objectives
of the Symbolic Monarch Migration. |
| Explore!
Geographic Puzzler |
The
Longest Symbolic Migration in 2007
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Click
to see larger version!
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Just
as the real monarchs travel miles and miles in their fall migration,
the symbolic monarchs also can chalk up the miles. Whose butterflies
will travel the farthest this year? One package arriving at
the Journey North headquarters contained butterflies made at
Jackson Five English School in Taiwan!
Here’s
a puzzle for you:
If the Taiwanese butterflies migrated directly to the monarch sanctuaries in
Mexico how many miles would they travel?
This information might to help you solve the puzzle:
- JacksonFive
English School is located in Taichung City, Taiwan (24.15N,
120.67E)
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butterflies are traveling to the sanctuaries in Mexico (19.62N,
-100.28W).
How
many different ways could you determine the distance between
the 2 places? Give it a try and share your information with your
class! Then see what we found >> |
| Mark
your Calendar! Here What's in Store for Your Symbolic Butterflies:
COMING
November 6: Symbolic
Butterfly Art Galleries
View a sampling of your creative masterpieces!
COMING
NOVEMBER 29: Passenger
Lists
To make sure your Symbolic Butterflies
were on board.
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The
Next Symbolic Monarch Migration Update Will be Posted on November
6, 2007.
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