Spring Lessons, Activities, and Information General Biology Winter Fall Getting Started Overview Key Activities: Watch for Monarchs Report Your Observations Read Journey North News Write in Your Spring Monarch Migration Journal Predict the Route of the Monarch's Spring Migration Observe Monarch Habitat and the Seasons Tracking Migration Historic Migration Maps: Spring Migration (1997 - present) Pre-Migration Map: Getting Ready for the Migration Slideshow: Spring Migration Begins: A Race Against Time Slideshow: Do You Know a Monarch When You See One? Identification:Look, Measure, Draw, Describe Identification:Wanted: Monarch Butterfly Sightings: Can You Tell a Viceroy from a Monarch? Identification: A Case of Mistaken Identity? Observations:Monarch Butterfly Migration Checklist Observations:Monitoring Monarch Habitat While You Wait Predicting the Monarch's Spring Migration Route Slideshow: How Do Monarchs Find Milkweed? Slideshow: New Monarchs Replace the Old: The Journey North Continues What Does Monarch Butterfly Migration Look Like in the Spring? Citizen Science and Journey North: Thinking Carefully About Methods Looking at Migration Patterns Migration Maps (1997 to present): Comparing Monarch Migration Patterns From Year to Year Analyzing Migration Maps: Watch Your Language! Slideshow: Where Will They Go Next? Predicting Patterns of Migration Spring Migration and March Temperatures: Are they related? Spring Recolonization of North America All Monarchs Do Not Go to Mexico for the Winter When Do Monarchs Normally Arrive in Your Home Town? How Far From Mexico Did This Butterfly Fly? Analyzing Migration Patterns: The Monarch's Journey NORTH? What if That Monarch Had Flown Due North? How Far North Do Monarchs Migrate? Which Generation Migrates to Mexico in the Fall? Dealing With Unexpected Findings Monarch on the Move or Mistaken Sighting? Can You Solve the Migration Mystery in California? Early Illinois Sighting Raises Questions How do you explain the early monarch in Massachusetts? First Monarch in Maine? Verifying Data Behind the Scenes Local or Migratory Butterflies? Looking for Evidence New Butterfly or Old? Wing-wear Quiz Human Population Centers and Monarch Reports: Any Correlation? Time to Revisit Views About Monarch Migration? Comparing Monarchs and Other Migratory Species Lesson: Comparing Monarch and Hummingbird Migration Slideshow: Look Who's Traveling Too! Learning About Monarchs From Hummingbirds? Compare and Contrast: Two Flower-powered Migratory Species Songbirds Fly Under Night-time Skies--Do Monarchs? Journey North in the Classroom Challenge Questions: A Central Tool for Student Learning Keep a Migration Journal How is a Vacation Like a Migration? Story of a Life's Journey Monarchs in the News: Write a Migration Column Migration Updates for Students in Mexico's Sanctuary Region Journey North for Kids Slideshows, booklets, video clips, images, stories from Mexico Background Lessons Journey North's study of the seasons Standards Science Math   Featured Highlights Historic Maps Migration Map Archives   Spring Migration: A Race Against Time >>   The Annual Cycle of the Monarch >>   Where Will They Go Next? Predicting Patterns of Migration >> This Season Teachers Kids Orientation Registration Search Copyright 1997-2009 Journey North. All Rights Reserved. Questions or comments? Contact us.