flight+of+the+butterfly

 **All about the flight of the butterfly**
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|| Every fall, a magical event takes place in the animal world. Perhaps traveling over your own head right now--or clustered by the hundreds in a nearby tree--the annual monarch butterfly migration to Mexico is underway. By instinct alone, the butterflies go to the same mountains that their ancestors left the previous spring. Somehow, they find a place in Mexico that they've never seen before. The butterflies are born knowing everything they need to survive, so we look on with wonder: ||
 * How do the monarchs know **when** to go to Mexico?
 * How do they know **which way** to fly?
 * How **fast**, how **far**, and how **high** do they travel?
 * And **how do they know** when they have arrived--at a small speck on the planet where none has ever been before?

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<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #00ff00; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">__**songs and activities for gross motor about butterfly flight:**__ [|butterfly movement activity: preK-2nd grade]

[|preschool: act out life cycle of butterfly]

[|gross and fine motor preK activities]


 * __<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">lesson plans for teaching about the flight of the butterfly: __**

[|Q & A about how high butterflies fly]

[|too cold to fly today?]

[|why migrate on a bridge?]

[|experiment: students walk, butterflies fly; who will get there first?]

[|full curriculum lesson plan,prek-K]

[|slide show about monarch flight]
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[|how far can you see a butterfly?]

[|monarch migration eye test slide show]

[|clay craft]
 * __<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">arts & crafts: __**

[|butterfly flier craft: preK and up]

[|butterfly wind sock]