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• Name: Julia Frederick, Alexandria Purcell, Anna Willoughby, Cece Working
• Position and Institution: University of Georgia
• Contact: julia.frederick[at]uga.edu, @JuliaFrederick on Twitter
• Year contributed: 2021

• Grade Level: 9-12
• Georgia Standards of Excellence: SEC3, SEN2, SZ4, SZ5

In this lesson, students will experience different threats as a monarch butterfly. They must make behavioral decisions that give them the best chance at completing the monarch butterfly's yearly migration to Mexico while recognizing trade-offs between energetic outputs, resource acquisition, and exposure to threats.

Learning Objectives: • Identify the life cycle of an arthropod • Describe threats that can affect survival and longevity • Host-parasite interactions • Apply and understand ecological principles of species persistence • Design methods human can use remedy these threats • Describe how individual behavior scales up to population trends

• parasite
• predation
• competition
• human interaction
• environment
• behavior

Lesson Plan

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW03HCwf9II