Senora Trevino became concerned that uninformed people, like her own children, weren't aware of this and were killing them. Senora Trevino coordinates students' reports of monarch butterflies from across Mexico. This butterfly was made by one of the students who learned about the monarchs because of Senora Trevino. Not All Monarchs Survive the Trip Unfortunately, each year we send more butterflies to Mexico than we receive back in the spring. We recommend you prepare your students to view this as a class project, rather than as an individual exchange.
Many teachers make a bulletin board where all the monarchs sent to the class are displayed.
Use this as an opportunity for students to find parallels between the symbolic and real monarch migrations. Because they migrate, the monarchs themselves are a shared resource. But try to focus on the remarkable fact that it is this sharing that perpetuates the cycle. Migration is a survival story, full of risks and dangers. In nature, most individuals do not survive migration.