Teachers and students in K-12 classrooms are invited to participate this fall in Journey North’s 15th global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. One of the nation’s premier Internet-based “citizen science” projects, Journey North enables students in 11,000 schools to track the seasons on a real-time basis. Students follow the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, whooping cranes, and other animals; the budding of plants, changing sunlight, and other natural events.  They share their own field observations with classmates across North America and analyze data from other classroom and professional scientists.

Journey North web site access and participation are free. Visit the Journey North web site for details: http ://www.learner.org/jnorth. (Fall projects will be featured in early August.)

Check the web site for fall start dates and a list of spring studies that start in late January including:

• Monarch Migration
• International Plant Study: Tulips
• Whooping Cranes
• Mystery Class