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WHOLE CLASS ENRICHMENT (All students)

Grade Three (Activity Periods)

Monarchs in the Classroom

Through a series of lessons related to the life cycle and ecology of the Monarch butterfly, students engage in the inquiry process, while planning and conducting investigations. Students use appropriate tools and techniques to gather data, think critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations, while they construct and analyze alternative theories and communicate scientific ideas. Students observe and learn about the life cycle and migration of the Monarch butterfly, while recording characteristics of monarch caterpillars, and then observing the metamorphosis from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. They also feed and take care of newly emerged Monarch butterflies and nurse them until they are ready to be released. Students create Monarch crafts and activities.

In conjunction with the Monarch Watch program of the Entomology Department of The University of Kansas students also tag, record and release the Monarchs to track their migration patterns from New Jersey to their remote over-wintering grounds in the Transvolcanic Mountains west of Mexico City, Mexico. With its foundation in life science, the curriculum incorporates concepts and skills in math, reading, writing, art and social studies.

Economics

Students will plan healthy family meals for the least amount of money. They will then be given an imaginary budget with which they will, as wise consumers, go on an imaginary food shopping trip through food store circulars. Students can use coupons for added discounts. The goal is to save the most money while still providing a healthy nutritious meal for their family.

Environmental Awareness

Students will investigate Threatened and Endangered Species native to the Kinnelon area. They will learn to recognize what a Threatened and Endangered Species is. Students will participate in Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey's "Adopt-A-Species for the Classroom" Campaign. Students will learn why so many of our native species become endangered and then they will demonstrate how they can help through the following activities;

• Creating a poster capturing an idea of how we can all help endangered species.
• Writing a letter to the Governor of New Jersey explaining why we should protect our endangered species.
• Creating a diorama (a 3-D project using a shoe box) of an endangered species in its habitat. Also writing a description of the endangered species and its habitat.

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