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Journey North: Children Practice Real Science by Monitoring Monarchs

Third-grade students at Rockledge Elementary join thousands of kids across North America to track migration patterns of butterflies and other species as part of this online project.

June 6, 2002

Editor's Note: Although Fran Koontz, the teacher shown in this video, retired in 2008, the Journey North continues to be actively used in schools all over the country, and is considered the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children.

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