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Travel
Advisory!
Please
follow these directions so we don't have to return your butterflies.
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What
to Expect This Fall:
- Mail
these four
pieces as instructed:
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Checklist
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Symbolic Monarchs
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Spring Return Envelope
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Fall Mailing Envelope
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What to Expect Next Spring:
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You probably will not receive as many butterflies
back next spring as you send this fall. In past years, even with
our greatest efforts, the return rate has been approximately 80-90%.
(Please
do not send more butterflies than the number of students in your
class.)
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Be sure to alert your school mail handler to be on the lookout
for the returning butterflies in the spring.
- You
will not get your own butterflies back next spring.
You will receive butterflies that were made by
other U.S. and Canadian students.
- Expect
to set aside about 20 minutes (about 1 minute
per butterfly) to report each of the butterflies you receive to
the spring map.
- Most
messages and addresses you receive from Mexico will be handwritten
in Spanish. Computers are not as readily available to students
in Mexico as they are in the US and Canada.
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The
Purpose Behind the Symbolic Migration:
- Students
become ambassadors for the migrating monarchs
as they cross international boundaries.
- Monarch
butterflies are a SHARED natural resource. The
symbolic migration parallels the real monarch migration in rich
and complex ways. These parallels provide valuable opportunities
for real learning about international relations and the risks
of migration. See Lessons >>.
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How To Prepare for the Symbolic Migration:
- Send
your monarch as an ambassador to Mexico. These
Symbolic Migration Lessons
>>
will help reinforce the spirit and objectives
of the Symbolic Monarch Migration.
- Understand
that the quality of the butterflies you send in the fall may be
different than the quality of those you receive back next spring.
(Just as beautiful, new monarchs go to Mexico in the fall, the
real monarchs that return are tattered and torn.)
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Understand this is a class project not an individual exchange.
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Symbolic Migration
