ACTIVITY 8

Surfin' the Butterfly Net

Teaching Objectives:

1. Students will use good search strategies to locate a name on the Internet.
2. Students will read the material found through their searches and determine the answer to a question.
3. Students will recognize that information they seek can, in many cases, be found on the Internet.
4. Students will use their knowledge of Internet searches to devise their own questions.

Materials Needed:

• Internet access
• Writing supplies

Procedure:

Give the students the name "Lincoln Brower" and ask them to try to use the Internet to determine how this man is related to monarch butterflies.

Ask the students to use the Internet to find information about Fred Urquhart and Rick Mikula.

Have the students find on the Internet the names of other people or places relating to butterflies or other insects. Divide the class into teams and see which team can find the most entries on the list in a specific time period.