Students work collaboratively with scientists to track animal migrations. This year is the fourth year of our virtual reading club, which runs from November until the end of March. Each month, participants are asked to keep track of the minutes they read at home. Classrooms are welcome to join. Students rear, tag, and monitor migrations of monarch butterflies.
Students explore different ways to graph and make inferences from the data.
Students then make inferences about animal migrations and the impact of humans on the natural environment. Other groups are allowed to ask yes or no questions in order to gain further knowledge. Other students, in turn, use on-line forms to offer their diagnoses. The partner school then must redraw the partner, based on the descriptive text. The site contains writing resources and guidelines, as well.