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Title:

Monarch Watch

Url:

https://monarchwatch.org/

Publisher:

Monarch Watch
University of Kansas

Description: Monarch Watch is a research program based at the University of Kansas and its goal is to encourage citizen scientists of all ages to help in Monarch conservation efforts. Visitors interested in participating in the conservation efforts will not only find tagging activities, in which more than 100,000 children and adults participate every fall, but also projects that teach about providing food and shelter to Monarchs - mainly planting milkweed and growing butterfly gardens. The "Research Projects" section of the homepage provides links to five scientist/student partnership projects that classrooms can try. The "Monarch Size and Mass" project teaches students how to safely take different types of measurements of live Monarchs, record the data, and send it to the Monarch Watch program. The purpose of the project is to learn what enables some Monarchs to survive their yearly 2,500 mile migration to Mexico, and what prevents some from surviving the migration. Some of the other projects for the classroom include "Tagging Monarchs" and "Larval Monitoring". There is also a Monarch Watch Blog, Forums, an email list as well as links to follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

LC Classification:

Agriculture -- Plant culture -- Gardens and gardening
Science -- Zoology -- Invertebrates -- Arthropoda -- Insects -- Lepidoptera (Butterflies; moths)
Science -- Zoology -- Invertebrates -- Arthropoda -- Insects -- Lepidoptera (Butterflies; moths) -- Butterfly attracting

GEM Subject:

Science -- Biology
Science -- Informal education
Science -- Natural history

Key Concept:

Agriculture -- Gardening
Biology -- Insects

Resource Type:

Collection
Reference Material
Instructional Material
Instructional Material -- Instructor Guide/Manual

Format:

Document -- HTML

Audience:

Educator
Learner

Education Level:

High School
Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education

Language:

English

Rights:

Monarch Watch

Access Rights:

Free access

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