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| Students who had raised monarchs in their classrooms and tagged and released monarchs in October with the Nature Center joined with students from Piedras Negras, Mexico to march in the Veterans Day Parade, November 10, 2001
Joining the students and speaking in the community was Eligio Garcia Serrano, chief butterfly biologist in Mexico's Biosfera de la Mariposa Monarca. |
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| Students from Correo Real in Piedras Negras came to meet Eligio Garcia Serrano and carry the banner sent by students in Laurel, Mississippi, for the symbolic migration. | |||||||||||||
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| In November, author Ba Rea visited Eagle Pass and displayed her highly acclaimed educational workbook for students studying the monarch butterfly. The beautifully illustrated workbook is called "My Monarch Investigations" and was designed to teach scientific research methods to 4th through 6th graders. Rea came to Eagle Pass to participate in the symbolic monarch march with the students in the Veteran's Day Parade. | |||||||||||||
| She was also in our area researching her next children's science book which will feature Eagle Pass and the monarch migration.
Further information about the author and her text can be seen at http://www.lifestrands.org. |
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