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"Where is My Food?" Lesson Plan"Where is My Food?" Lesson Plan
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5th - 12th
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"Where is My Food?"

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Students investigate the monarch's searching behavior and ability to find food. They determine whether or not a caterpillar can find food in a simple Y-shaped maze. They record and graph or chart the data from several attempts using several different monarch caterpillars.

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eating habits, healthy eating, monarch butterflies, butterflies, milkweed

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eating habits, milkweed, monarch butterflies, science

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