Butterfly Garden Grant

Special Project Learning Tree GreenWorks!
Butterfly Garden Grants are available for teachers and students participating in MonarchLIVE: A Distance Learning Adventure!Through MonarchLIVE, your classroom can join a series of free live, interactive field trips that follow the magical migration of monarchs. Learn more about MonarchLIVE below. As a lead partner in MonarchLIVE, PLT is providing special GreenWorks! service-learning grants to participating teachers. Grants of up to $1,000 are available for schools to create butterfly gardens in their schoolyard or community. For more information about the GreenWorks! Butterfly Garden Grants, please visit www.greenworks.org .

The annual migration cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in the world. Every year, millions of monarchs migrate thousands of miles from Canada and the United States to overwinter in the mountain peaks in the states of Mexico and Michoacán in Mexico. This magical journey, deemed an “endangered natural phenomenon,†is dependent on conservation of habitats in all three North American countries – United States, Canada, and Mexico.During the 2008-09 school year, take your class on FREE live, interactive field trips that follow the magical migration of monarchs. Monarch curriculum materials that meet the national science education standards are available online to teachers. In February 2009, join us in Mexico where we will talk with scientists studying monarchs and learn about local people who are preserving winter habitat.
MonarchLIVE Kickoff October 10, 2008 Join us in Virgnia as we kick off MonarchLIVE with experts and scientists. Webcast and satellite broadcast, Noon - 1 p.m. Eastern Time
In the Mexican Mountains February 17, 2009Visit with Mexican and American biologists who study the monarch’s winter habitat.Webcast and satellite broadcast, Noon - 1 p.m. Eastern TimeCommunity Conservation in MexicoFebruary 19, 2009Monarchs overwinter in a remote area of Mexico, and communities there are working to conserve this rare habitat.Webcast and satellite broadcast, Noon - 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Little Spaces; Big Results May 19, 2009Butterfly gardens can be created everywhere! Join us in Chicago to learn how small garden plots can have big results for both butterflies and people.Webcast and/or broadcast, Noon - 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Building the PopulationMay 21, 2009Visit Minnesota to learn about monarchs' summer behavior and population growth, citizen roles in monitoring the population, and threats to monarchs.Webcast and/or broadcast, Noon - 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Monarchs in CanadaMay 28, 2009Monarchs depend on healthy habitats in three countries, and Canada provides a welcome summer home to thousands.Webchat, Noon - 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time

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