| Ideas for schools to
incorporate during the migration:
 Team up with Journey
North, an
Internet based program for schools to help track
various animal migrations
Participate in Journey North's
Symbolic Butterfly Migration - deadline this year
is October 12, 2007
Consider planting a Butterfly
Garden at your school. Fall is a good time to
prepare the soil, create the garden, prepare the soil for select spring
plantings, and even plant some perennials or bulbs in the fall. Mulch
for winter, etc. More ideas on butterfly gardening available at websites
for the National Wildlife Federation and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and www.monarchwatch.org
Draw a compass rose on the school
playground with chalk pointing the way to Mexico
as a symbolic gesture for the monarchs
Draw an outline of the North
American continent on the playground and slowly
walk the routes beginning first for NE monarchs to Mexico, naming the states, rivers, national forests and parks that might
be crossed; next for monarchs flying to Mexico
from the Great Lakes region and then for monarchs
that are in western Canada that will over winter in southern California. |
