Schoolwide Monarch Butterfly Garden Project
Utilizing skills of research, collaboration, and creativity, students in grades 6-8 built a Butterfly Garden at the school.
- Students used Google Apps for Education (GAFE) in order to do their research and communicate with others.
- Students interacted with Google Classroom to post responses and turn in HW assignments.
- Students collaborated using Google Docs and Google Slides to create a PPT presentation.
- The entire school and local community, benefits. All grades study the life cycle of butterflies, plants, conservation, and other related environmental topics. Additionally, it gives students and others a calm place to go.
- All students are involved from planting seeds in classrooms, raising monarchs, planting the garden, researching Monarchs and plants that support them, maintenance of the garden and monitoring the Monarch’s migration.
- The 8th grade created an actual size model on the Science Lab room floor when designing the garden.
- The local community was involved as volunteers helped with excavating and planting the garden. Community volunteers also help care for the garden.
- We are an official Monarch Waystation.
- Students participated in a related art project to design and create stepping stones for the path through the garden.
Monarch butterflies are declining at a rapid pace due to habitat loss. We will continue the study by raising Monarchs, tagging them, and monitoring sightings on a yearly basis.