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For Teachers: Suggestions for Assessment
After the Fall Migration Season
Now that the fall monarch migration is drawing to a close, it's a good time for students to reflect on what they have learned during the journey. The following activities and journal pages will help you assess student-understanding:
- The Geography of Monarch Migration
- Traveling With a Monarch: Tell the Story of Fall Migration
- Habitat and Migration
- OTHER Monarch Butterfly Assessment Tools
| The Geography of Monarch Migration Illustrate the monarch's incredible journey!
Follow the checklist as you add these and other features to your map. |
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Traveling With a Monarch: Tell the Story of Fall Migration
As you've traveled with monarchs on their 2,500-mile journey, you've surely learned a lot along the way. Use your new understanding to tell the story of this amazing survival tale.
| Ways to Tell the Story:
Here's a checklist for your project...and a map you can draw on. |
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Habitat and Migration
This fall, we've watched as millions of monarch butterflies left their breeding grounds in the north and traveled across the continent. They had to fly up to 2,500 miles to a winter home in Mexico in order to survive. What did you learn about habitat and migration?
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Habitat Habitat is the place where all of an organism’s needs for life are met. Food, water, shelter and space are parts of an organism’s habitat. What did you learn about habitat and migration? |
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Breeding
Habitat How has habitat changed? |
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Migration Habitat |
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Adaptation
Concepts (Scale) |
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