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six years, Koontz, who teaches at Rockledge Elementary School, has involved her class in the activities of Journey North, an Internet project funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project. Journey North traces the migration of butterflies and other species as they head north each spring. Students at more than 6,000 schools make observations and report their sightings to create a digital map. They also are linked to working scientists who take questions about the different migrations.
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Other Journey North projects include growing tulips and noting the bloom times of the flowers across the continent, tracing the migration of birds and whales, and identifying a mystery city based on photo-period data consisting of sunrise and sunset times.
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Koontz and her students are on high alert looking for the butterflies in their own neighborhood.
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hey report their observations to the Journey North databank as part of a three-continent collaboration in which 300,000 students are participating scientists.
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Internet project also cuts across disciplines, such as writing, math, social studies, and geography.
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The eight- and nine-year-olds in her class calculate the time from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. They measure -- in centimeters because that's what scientists do -- growth of tulips and
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We actually were able to watch one of the butterflies emerge from its chrysalis," Koontz says. "That's something they'll never, never forget."
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igital camera, put those photographs on disks, and then include the photos in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that shows their progress in guessing ten mystery cities by clues ("This city is one of the few world capitals not situated on a coast or navigable river") and comparing photo periods. They use animation and sound effects to write reports about the project.
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And then when they realize that there are gardens all over the country blooming with theirs, it's just a real enriching experience for them
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three-continent collaboration in w
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uts across disciplines, such as writing, math, social studies, and geography.
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March of the Monarchs: Students Follow the Butterflies' Migration
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Working As and With Real Scientists
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Teacher Frances Koontz shows students a "symbolic" butterfly sent from children in Mexico, where the journey north begins.
Credit: Edutopia
Scientific Observation
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Internet project also cuts across disciplines, such as writing, math
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social studies, and geograph
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A Good Use of Technology
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March of the Monarchs: Students Follow the Butterflies' Migration
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students a "symbolic" butterfly sent from children in Mexico, where the journey north begins.
Credit: Edutopia
Scientific Observation
"I was sitting in the upper deck of Camden Yards Baseball Stadium and noticed a monarch fly in a northwesterly direction at about our eye level (approximately 80 feet from the ground)," Koontz wrote in one "Field Data Reports Record." "Of course I now had my eyes skyward instead of on the game but I was rewarded, because I observed 33 monarchs float across the baseball field, one at a time."
Koontz says the science in Journey North "is just extremely rich," adding that the Internet project also cuts across disciplines, such as writing, math, social studies, and geography. Students in Koontz's class also are gaining a special unde
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"We're going to follow the path of the monarchs and identify the states where they travel. If you need help with the name, look in your atlas."
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activities of Journey North,
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Students at more than 6,000 schools make observations and report their sightings to create a digital map
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Other Journey North projects include growing tulips and noting the bloom times of the flowers across the continent, tracing the migration of birds and whales, and identifying a mystery city based on photo-period data consisting of sunrise and sunset times.
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As soon as the students spot the monarchs, they report their observations to the Journey North databank as part of a three-continent collaboration in which 300,000 students are participating scientists.
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Koontz says the science in Journey North "is just extremely rich," adding that the Internet project also cuts across disciplines, such as writing, math, social studies, and geography.
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gaining a special understanding of Mexico through the exchange of "symbolic" butterflies -- sewn or drawn representations -- that includes information about the lives and surroundings of the students who made them
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calculate the time from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly
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measure -- in centimeters because that's what scientists do -- growth of tulips and milkweed, on which monarch larvae feed
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daily temperature readings
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charts and graphs of their results. They write in detail about their findings. And they learn about different U.S. states, Canada, and Mexico
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igital camera to take pictures of larvae feeding in their milkweed garden and moving through the life cycle to become butterflies
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remote keyboard to give different children an opportunity to work at the computer without leaving their desks
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hands-on approach to learning that Journey North advocates, from better writing to deeper investigation skills
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she advises teachers to "start out small" and not try too many Journey North activities at once.
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enriching experience
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2,500-mile voyage
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make observations and report their sightings to create a digital map
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as part of a three-continent collaboration in which 300,000 students are participating scientists.
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project also cuts across disciplines, such as writing, math, social studies, and geography.
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he eight- and nine-year-olds in her class calculate the time from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. They measure -- in centimeters because that's what scientists do -- growth of tulips and milkweed, on which monarch larvae feed.
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Students in Koontz's class use a digital camera to take pictures of larvae feeding in their milkweed garden and moving through the life cycle to become butterflies.
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from better writing to deeper investigation skills.
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For first-timers, she advises teachers to "start out small" and not try too many Journey North activities at once.
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