Posted by: Toby Gestetner
Hey again! This is Toby, Haley, and Anna with a week 3 update on our project to help save the monarch butterflies. Since our last blog post, we obtained feedback from faculty members at our school about our solution for our project. They gave us different ideas about what to modify and improve about our solution. They suggested that we use seed bombs to plant and give out to people. This would make it a more fun way to plant milkweed, which makes people more encouraged to do it. Our new and improved solution is to plant milkweed in community gardens, and also give out milkweed seed bombs to people so they can plant it in their gardens. We think that people will actually plant the milkweed seed bombs for a couple reasons. People that take our seed bombs probably want to help the monarchs survive, and all they have to do is throw the seed bombs on soil in their gardens. Once we give these seed bombs out to people, we will give them a survey so we can know if they plant their seed bombs, and what happens with them. Our solution will help the monarch community because there will be more milkweed out in the environment for them to eat and survive on!
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Posted by: Haley Hansen
Hey! This is Haley, Anna, and Toby with a week #2 update on our topic. We wanted to focus on monarch butterflies due to the fact that their main migration route is right though California. Monarchs issues have recently come to light and many organizations are addressing their problems such as National Geographics . The main problem for monarchs is decline in milkweed. Milkweed is a plant commonly found in the western half of North America. In C.A its found in the Sierras and Coast Ranges. Due to the decline in this plant it makes it difficult for the next generation of butterflies to survive to finish the migration. Some solutions are team has been considering was trying to stop deforestation. We soon realized how broad that was a difficult to obtain. After some long consideration we narrowed it down to how humans are cutting down milkweed plants in their homes with the confusion of thinking it’s just a normal weed. Our team also wants to make people more aware of this plant and its importance and how significant it is to the survival of monarch butterflies. Then we consider having more milkweed planted in public parks this solution can better the aesthetic in parks due to the fact that more butterfly will inhabit space and it will help monarchs with the decrease in milkweed! Posted by: Anna Perttula
Hello! Our names are Anna Perttula, Toby Gestetner, and Haley Hansen. We were given a challenge to help our community. The two solution topics that we were given to choose from were to try to enhance the mobility of humans, or to try to improve the movement patterns of living or non-living things. From these two topics, we chose to try to improve the movement patterns of living and non-living things. We then narrowed it down to how humans affect animal migration. We chose this topic because all of us like and appreciate animals, and are interested in helping them. Over the past weeks we have learned how humans affect migrating animals. From this topic, we narrowed it down even more and chose to work on how humans are affecting monarch butterflies during their migration. One reason that we chose to focus on monarch butterflies because all three of us have seen them before and feel like it would make a bigger difference to us if we could relate and create a solution to help them. Another reason we chose to focus on monarchs is because we found a lot of problems that they have when they migrate, so we thought that it would be better to help our community solve this problem. Can’t wait to continue this challenging process of helping the butterflies! |
AuthorsOur Names are Anna Perttula, Toby Gestner, and Hale Hansen! And we are seventh graders at Windward School Archives
April 2019
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