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
in the database
or on the migration
maps.
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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,
find the location of the monarch closest to your hometown, measure
the distance monarchs must fly, predict when you'll see your
first monarch, and/or mark the location of migration highlights.
(You may also print an expanded
map and review core
map questions about the migration each week.)
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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 something unusual or intruguing?
Enjoy a quote? Learn something new about monarch habitat or
migration? Discover a risk of migration that surprised them?
Capture colorful tidbits like these in the "Highlights"
section. Students can draw comments from the database
or the migration
map.
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Answer our Challenge Questions that appear
in every migration update. Just flip the page over for more
space.
- Thematic
Journals The monarch migration study is rich with examples
of key science concepts (habitat, adaptations, ecosystems, seasons,
and life cycles). See more tips on teaching themes and Journey
North journals: Building
Understanding Through Long-term Studies.
- Helpful
Links:
Journey North Journals;
Journaling Questions
and Assessment
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