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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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!
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Draw a Monarch Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how to create a scientific illustration of a monarch butterfly in a few easy steps.
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US Forest Service

U.s. Forest Service: Monarch Butterfly in North America

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you need to know about monarch butterflies.
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Handout
Saint Louis Zoo

Saint Louis Zoo: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn animal facts about the appearance, behavior, life cycle, and diet of the monarch butterfly.
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Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Canadian Geographic: Animal Facts: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn fast facts, the physiology, habitats, behaviors and range of the monarch butterfly.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly: Journey North: Monarch Migration Update

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and learn about monarch butterfly sightings and migration, and what those can tell about the species.
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterflies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe monarch butterflies and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Migration of the Monarch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores the migratorial exploits of monarch butterflies. [4:39]
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Other

Vida: Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use these images to study the monarch butterfly's life cycle.
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Other

Monarch Watch

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Mystic Aquarium: Monarchs and Milkweed

For Students 1st - 2nd
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.
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Other

Fermilab Flora and Fauna Virtual Exhibit: The Monarch Butterfly and Milkweed

For Students 9th - 10th
This site traces the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and contains links for more in depth study of the terms presented.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Life of a Monarch Butterfly

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Monarch Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
This video from Nature features the start of the monarch butterfly's northward trek. [3:02]
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Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Monarchs & Migration

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read all about monarch butterflies and their migrations. Find out what teachers, students, and families across America are saying and doing about monarch butterflies.
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Handout
Lone Star Junction

Lone Star Junction: The Texas State Insect: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 5th
Some facts about the monarch butterfly, which is the state insect of Texas.
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: How to Plant a Monarch Friendly Garden

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Nature Canada

Nature Canada: Monarch Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Ask Dr. Universe: How Far Can Monarchs Fly?

For Students 2nd - 8th
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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