Tips
for Teachers
Use these journal pages the way we designed them, or customize
as appropriate for your class. Just click to download, open through
your Word application, and print! Or edit to enter your own questions,
categories, or layout. Students can keep their own migration journal
by following our Monarch Butterfly
Migration News Updates, and/or drawing from original comments
on the migration
maps and/or sightings
database.
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Print a cover for each student and a stack
of journal pages. Journals can be stapled,
bound, or kept in each students' pocket folder to pull out on
"Journey North days."
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The
map is a constant visual reminder of the geography
of migration. Students can find Mexico's winter monarch sanctuaries,
measure the distance monarchs must fly, and map the location
of migration highlights.
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Headline is a chance for students to identify
the main idea of the week's migration news in their own creative
way.
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Summary
is a place to sum up the news in a paragraph with supporting
details.
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Highlights Along the Migration Trail is a category
for journal writers to focus on a bit of migration news of special
interest to them. Did they read about an unusual sighting? Enjoy
a quote? Learn something new about migration? Capture colorful
tidbits like these in the "Highlights" section. Students
can draw original comments from our migration
maps and/or sightings
database.
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Answer our Journaling Questions that appear
in every migration update. Just flip the page over for more
space.
- Thematic
Journals The monarch migration study is rich with concrete
examples of key science concepts (such as habitat, adaptations,
ecosystems, seasons and cycles). See more tips on teaching themes
and Journey North journals: Building
Understanding Through Long-term Studies.
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