===== Monarch Migration Adventure =====

==== Author Information ====

  * **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

==== Categories ====

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

==== Abstract ====

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


==== Keywords ====

  * parasite
  * predation
  * competition
  * human interaction
  * environment
  * behavior

==== Files ====

{{ :georgia:monarch_adventure.pdf |Lesson Plan}}

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