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Sample
Understanding of Monarch Adaptations

Criteria Beginning Developing Mastery
Understands that adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.      
Can describe 2 monarch butterfly behavioral adaptations and explain their functions.      
Can describe 3 monarch butterfly structural adaptations and explain their functions.      
Can discuss monarch life cycles and important structures and behaviors that characterize each phase.      
Can explain the potential impacts of habitat loss on migrating monarchs.