Monarchs only live three to four weeks. She said her Web site, produced with the help of her father, Dan, a computer teacher at Morris Knolls High School, has been visited 50,000 times over the past three years. An entomology professor at the University of Kansas saw it and sent her a powder that, when mixed with water, produces nectar butterflies like to drink. She is not above playing games on the Internet. One of her favorites is an arcade bowling game, with Santa s elves as the pins.
Most teens say they play on the Internet, from educational word games to arcade games.
But playing games was only the third most popular activity among Morris students surveyed, behind e-mail and getting help with homework. Sometimes, they do all of them at once. Matthew Harper, for example, said he might simultaneously watch television, work on a biology project and talk to friends on the Internet. It works for me. Harper keeps in touch with an aunt in St. Louis by e-mail.