Third-Story Questions:
1. Where do you think our tagged Monarch butterflies will end
up? Predicting.
2. Imagine what life would be like without Monarch butterflies.
Forecasting.
Second-Story Questions:
1. Compare the Monarch butterfly with a non-poisonous butterfly.
Contrasting.
2. How is the Monarch butterfly different from the Gulf Frutilary?
Comparing.
First-Story Questions:
1. List the cycles of the Monarch butterfly. Sequencing.
2. How can we identify a male from a female Monarch? Distinguish.Persistence
and Impulsivity.
The habits of persistence and impulsivity will increase as students
climb the ladder of the Three-Story Questions in the following
manner: At the first level, students that are non-persistent and
impulsive will simply copy from their more persistent classmates,
assuming there is only one correct answer and succumb to the pressure
of "good grades." At the second level, the non-persistent
and the impulsive student will ask their more persistent classmates
how and what links on the Internet did they find information on
other butterflies. Finally, at the third level, the impulsive
students will fall into fantasy speculation. The more persistent
students will probably get at least one good forecast, and the
non-impulsive persistent students will make two or more excellent
predictions.
Important Links:
Florida Monarch
http://www.adver-net.com/FMonHome.html
Monarch Watch
Cornell: Blue Jay