GREAT MIGRATIONS: The global television event on the National Geographic Channel began last week and is truly remarkable. There are free educational resources available
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My favorite is the “multigenerational” migration of the Monarch Butterfly. It is beautifully filmed and narrated in a way that children can easily understand. The map showing a monarch’s journey north and then back to Mexico by its offspring is excellent. Also shown is how monarchs lay eggs on milkweed plants, so their offspring can make it all the way to Canada. But how do they know when it gets too cold, to head south to a place they have never been? Is a map printed in their genes?
It still mystifies me, and of course, after viewing this piece three times at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/great-migrations-educator-resources/video/monarch-migration/ I went to my latest book, Going Home, the Mystery of Animal Migration to enjoy illustrator, Jennifer DiRubbio’s gorgeous illustration of the monarch page along with the other nine migrating creatures I wrote about in this book.
Here's the verse about the monarch:
Going home, going home; dancing in the sky.
Waking from our winter sleep, it's time for us to fly.
We rested in our "family tree" filling every space.
But now it's time to travel on and find another place.
If you haven’t seen the book, I hope you will check it out on this web site or at www.dawnpub.com or www.amazon.com. And don’t miss viewing this incredible National Geographic “gem!”
P.S. To download reproducible bookmarks of the ten migrating creatures in my book, including the beautiful monarch, go to www.dawnpub.com and click onto "Teaching Tools."
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My favorite is the “multigenerational” migration of the Monarch Butterfly. It is beautifully filmed and narrated in a way that children can easily understand. The map showing a monarch’s journey north and then back to Mexico by its offspring is excellent. Also shown is how monarchs lay eggs on milkweed plants, so their offspring can make it all the way to Canada. But how do they know when it gets too cold, to head south to a place they have never been? Is a map printed in their genes?
It still mystifies me, and of course, after viewing this piece three times at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/great-migrations-educator-resources/video/monarch-migration/ I went to my latest book, Going Home, the Mystery of Animal Migration to enjoy illustrator, Jennifer DiRubbio’s gorgeous illustration of the monarch page along with the other nine migrating creatures I wrote about in this book.
Here's the verse about the monarch:
Going home, going home; dancing in the sky.
Waking from our winter sleep, it's time for us to fly.
We rested in our "family tree" filling every space.
But now it's time to travel on and find another place.
If you haven’t seen the book, I hope you will check it out on this web site or at www.dawnpub.com or www.amazon.com. And don’t miss viewing this incredible National Geographic “gem!”
P.S. To download reproducible bookmarks of the ten migrating creatures in my book, including the beautiful monarch, go to www.dawnpub.com and click onto "Teaching Tools."