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Goal

To continue to help provide a space for students to learn about the life of a butterfly. Also, we would like to engage students with learning about gardening. This encompasses Science Standards across all grade levels. 

 

What will be done with my students

Our students will help take care of the garden and continue to be the stewards of our butterfly gardens. The milkweed plants will continue to attract the Monarch Butterfly who will lay eggs on the leaves. Our garden is established but needs to be renewed with Milkweeds and soil. It is quite a spectacle to witness all of the caterpillars that munch and crunch on the Milkweeds. We are hoping to be able to rotate the plants so that they will be able to re-grow between the caterpillar transformations! The students will also be tracking and documenting the length of time it takes a caterpillar to grow from when it hatches to when it becomes a butterfly and seeing if there environmental factors that can affect the metamorphosis.
Our entire student body uses these gardens as a place to observe the life changes of the Monarch and even to just have a moment of repose in our busy days. 

 

Benefits to my students

Being engaged in a natural surrounding has tremendous social emotional benefits for our students. Not only will the students be able to feel positive about caring for the garden but they truly take pride and ownership of what they contribute not only to our campus but also our community (the butterflies do travel outside our campus too!). Our students also get hand-on learning about plants and animals. We always say our garden is a Win-Win...for us as well as the plants and the animals for which we provide as well! 

 

Budget Narrative

These supplies are being purchased from a local nusery called American Farms. 

 

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