Monarch Migration

Here is a fabulous set of activities for your young scientists. Each lesson contains map, hands-on, and game activities that will help the class understand why and how animals migrate from one place to another. First they'll examine the...

Third graders investigate the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly. They experiment with various tools to simulate the mouth parts of insects, conduct research, record their observations of butterflies hatching, write a play, complete...

Monarch butterflies are as fragile as they look and a small change of their environment could have a huge impact on their lives. Watch this video to learn about one instance where over 250 million monarch butterflies died.

Students identify the stage of the butterfly's life cycle. In this life cycles instructional activity, students create a KWL chart about monarch butterflies. Students observe monarch caterpillars in an aquarium and identify the various...

A set of activities and a video that look at the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and at its migration to Mexico. The activities include raising butterflies, tagging them, and creating a butterfly garden. [1:42]

For this milkweed and monarch butterfly mania observations worksheet, students observe the photo, take notes and make a prediction about the habitat of the monarch butterfly.  This page has serveral links to helpful web resources.

Students explore Earth science by completing a worksheet in class. In this botany lesson, students identify the relationship between the Milkweed plant and the butterflies which regularly feed on its nutrients. Students visit a list of...

In this Kratt brothers videoclip, we learn how Monarch butterflies prepare for their long migratory journey, and what humans can do to help the Monarchs to survive. [2:02]

Learn about the monarch butterfly's life cycle, its dependence on milkweed, and its migration between Canada and Mexico. Includes audio narration in English and Spanish with text in English.

For as long as there has been life on earth, animals, including humans, have used migration as a means of survival. This collection of activities supports young scientists as they learn about this behavioral adaptation, encouraging them...