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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Students participate in ‘Monarchs in Space’ program
Keifer Alternative Center and Springfield High School students are participating in a program that allows them to conduct the experiment simultaneously with a space-based mission.
The students are studying Monarch biology at the same time the first ever Monarch “butterflynauts” have launched orbit aboard the space shuttle Atlantis and taken up residence in an international space station.
Photographer Marshall Gorby and I visited Catherine Lestrud’s class at Keifer today to talk to the class about their project. The experiment has been an excellent way to teach the students about observation as part of science and the students have enjoyed the hands-on work, said Lestrud.
The class has six caterpillars in three environments around the room to test the effect of temperature on the process of becoming a butterfly. Find out more about the experiment in tomorrow’s News-Sun.
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