Week 4: Monarch Butterflies

 In lab, we were investigating: What makes a lesson plan good according to the NGSS? We also were investigating how to use Monarch Butterflies in the classroom. To investigate the questions, we spent part of lab investigating butterflies by going through different stations. We also spent part of lab working on a project where we go through a lesson plan an evaluate it. We learned multiple different facts about butterflies by going through the stations. We learned that they eat milkweed, they go through complete metamorphosis, they migrate to a tree in Mexico, most live 4-6 weeks (except for super generation), their chrysalis are only a couple centimeters tall. Going through the stations was very beneficial to me to see how butterflies lived and learning more about them. I still can't believe that the super generation all migrate to the same tree in Mexico, and they can all navigate there without having been there before. I am still interested in learning why monarch butterflies migrate to that tree, what about it makes it appealing for them during the cold months?