Write
a Field Guide for the Monarch
Overwintering Sites
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Guide at the Sierra
Chincua Sanctuary |
In
February and March, Journey North sends weekly news from the monarch's overwintering
region in Central Mexico. Much of the information cannot be found in a book--so
why not write and illustrate your own? If your class would like to prepare
a Field Guide--in Spanish--that could actually be used by tour guides at
the Mexican sanctuaries, please contact us by using our
feedback form. Important:
Do Not Send Materials Without Communicating With Journey North Staff First!
Some Guidelines
- Read
each report for information and facts about monarch biology and conservation.
Topic areas such as the following will be included in Journey North
updates:
Habitat
and Range |
Life
Cycle and Reproduction |
Population
size |
Food,
Water, Diet |
Anatomy |
Predation |
Adaptations |
Conservation |
Migration |
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- Information
in your Field Guides must be accurate! (Teachers should carefully
review the students' work before having it translated into Spanish.
Obviously, if your Field Guide is sent to Mexico, we want the sanctuary
guides to have accurate information!)
- Please
have the translation as good as possible. (It would be perfect
to have facing pages in English and Spanish, so the students could do
their own writing and see their own words in Spanish.)
- Feel
free to download pictures from the Journey North Web site to include
in your work. Some classrooms have digital cameras and can
take pictures of the monarchs they raise and release. Other classrooms
have good artists, and their artwork gives a personal touch that technology
can't beat.
Background
We sense that there are many classrooms who do monarch-related
projects but have no use for them after the assignment. At the same
time, the tour guides in the sanctuary region don't have any materials
or written information about monarchs--either to learn from or to
show to tourists. (A few teachers enclosed their class works with
their Symbolic Butterflies--and they were really wonderful.) Therefore,
this seemed like a good match. We will collect these and deliver
them to the sanctuary area when we go down next fall. Thanks for
your help! |
National
Science Education Standards
Science
as Inquiry
- Ask a
question about objects, organisms, events. (K-4)
- Communicate
investigations and explanations. (K-4)
Other
Science Standards
(Students' research and field guides may reflect many of the standards
in life science, science and technology, and so on.)
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