Mrs. O's House: Milkweed and Monarch Butterfly Mania

Resource on the monarch butterfly, which includes migration maps, instructions for tracking and observing migration, and an opportunity to report your sightings. Also provides teacher information and classroom lessons.

Learn about the monarch butterfly's life cycle, its dependence on milkweed, and its migration between Canada and Mexico. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

Develop a digital story to illustrate and inform others about different habitats or ecosystems. Resources for building a digital story are provided.

Students will use their observation skills to determine what happened in photographs provided.

Exercise observation powers of students by showing this photo and having them research what type of bird it is.

Students examine the last stage of the monarch butterfly. For this life cycles lesson, students read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and study photos of the monarch life cycle. Students illustrate the third stage of the monarch...

Students investigate the life cycle of a butterfly. In this life cycle activity, students read the book Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons and discuss the four stages of the life cycle. Students illustrate the life cycle on chart paper.

Students raise money to purchase milkweed plants for their butterfly garden. In this gardening lesson, students listen to the story Miss Rumphius to determine why it is important to plant milkweed for butterflies. Students develop a...

A scientific task sending students into the great outdoors to discover a plant they do not know and record observations of that new plant.

A lesson to research statistics of local birds to identify if any of the populations are in decline. Based on the research, students will recommend an action plan to help any populations which are struggling.