Submitted by Jennifer Christiansen
Time Frame:
5 50-minute periods
Materials Needed:
- computers with Hyperstudio, KidPix or Appleworks software
- reference materials on monarchs
- Project Checklist (see Attachments below)
- Project Rubric (see Attachments)
Description of Task:
Each pair of students will create an electronic diary which describes a monarch's migratory route from Minnesota to Mexico in the form of a hyperstudio slide show.
Before giving students the checklist, brainstorm a list of questions as a class that they would ask someone who had just gotten back from a trip. The diary needs to be told from the first person point of view of the monarch and needs to include the following information:
- Describe diet and habitat along the way
- Mention the starting and stopping points and the approximate number of miles traveled
- Tell about problems/enemies that the butterfly may have encountered on the journey, what was done to overcome those problems and what could be done to avoid those problems in the future
- Explain why she decided to migrate and tells how she knew where to go
- Include pictures collected from along the journey (Picture of butterfly habitat in MN, along the way and in Mexico)
- Include interesting facts discovered along the journey
- Show map tracing migratory route