San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Monarch Butterfly
This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on monarch butterflies including details about their habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly
The beautiful monarch butterfly is the focus of this elaborate site. Links to photos, video clips, cycle of life, seasonal charts, migration maps, and stories from Mexico are also included. Terrific site for students to explore!
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly
All things related to the beautiful monarch butterfly are found here! Tons of links to everything you might imagine. Photos, video clips, plus teacher resources are also included.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly
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.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Draw a Monarch Butterfly
Learn how to create a scientific illustration of a monarch butterfly in a few easy steps.
US Forest Service
U.s. Forest Service: Monarch Butterfly in North America
Everything you need to know about monarch butterflies.
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo: Monarch Butterfly
Learn animal facts about the appearance, behavior, life cycle, and diet of the monarch butterfly.
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Monarch Butterfly
Learn fast facts, the physiology, habitats, behaviors and range of the monarch butterfly.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration
Join the celebration by creating paper butterflies that will migrate to their counterparts in Mexico for the winter. Children in Mexico who live beside the monarch's winter sanctuaries send them north in the spring.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly: Journey North: Monarch Migration Update
Read and learn about monarch butterfly sightings and migration, and what those can tell about the species.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Monarch Butterfly
Check out this educational resource to learn more about the monarch butterfly. This site features information ranging from life cycle, range, habitat, behavior, characteristics and diet.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterflies
Observe monarch butterflies and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Migration of the Monarch
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies. [4:39]
Other
Vida: Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly
Use these images to study the monarch butterfly's life cycle.
Other
Monarch Watch
This is an excellent resource for information about the monarch butterfly that includes information about life cycle, migration, observation, conservation, classroom activities, butterfly gardening, butterfly rearing, and the like.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Mystic Aquarium: Monarchs and Milkweed
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.
Other
Fermilab Flora and Fauna Virtual Exhibit: The Monarch Butterfly and Milkweed
This site traces the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and contains links for more in depth study of the terms presented.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Life of a Monarch Butterfly
Young scholars love the magic of the metamorphosis that produces a butterfly. We will listen to the story and write about our favorite part and include a picture. Examples of the student's work are included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Monarch Migration
This video from Nature features the start of the monarch butterfly's northward trek. [3:02]
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Monarchs & Migration
Read all about monarch butterflies and their migrations. Find out what teachers, students, and families across America are saying and doing about monarch butterflies.
Lone Star Junction
Lone Star Junction: The Texas State Insect: Monarch Butterfly
Some facts about the monarch butterfly, which is the state insect of Texas.
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: How to Plant a Monarch Friendly Garden
Information about how to create your own Monarch butterfly garden in your backyard is provided. There are detailed descriptions of the kinds of milkweed and other wildflower plants that a Monarch butterfly needs in order to lay its...
Nature Canada
Nature Canada: Monarch Butterfly
This information page on the monarch butterfly tells where and when you can find one. Details about how to recognize one and its diet are also given.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Ask Dr. Universe: How Far Can Monarchs Fly?
Many creatures seek out warm weather as the environment chills for winter. Dr. Universe will address how far these popular butterflies will travel to warm up.
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