The suggestions below will help you integrate Journey North's real-time program in the classroom. This guide accompanies the Monarch Migration Update for September 22, 2006.

1) Math: Migration Rate Math
Watch for this weekly feature. We will give you a collection of the week's best quantifiable monarch observations in each update. Here are background materials:

• See Lesson: Migration Rate Math

2) Weather and Map Interpretation: Too Cold to Fly Today?
Now that cooler weather has hit the monarch's northern range, it's a good time to explore the relationship between temperature and migration. How are monarchs adapted to cold? See the experiment included. The sequence starts here:

• See Lesson: Too Cold to Fly Today?

3) Conservation: Rules That Affect Monarchs >>
Every classroom and family has its own "rules" that reflect its needs and values. Students examine the concept of rules in their lives. They make connections to the complex issues that surround monarch conservation in countries that have different needs, values, and laws.

• See Lesson: Rules That Affect Monarchs

Try these activities regularly:

• Map: Make your own map in the classroom!
• Journal: Habitat and Survival: What do monarchs need during fall migration?

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