Join the Monarch Joint Venture for a free webinar!

Crochet and Conservation presented by Yesenia Juarez: How do you get the public excited about Monarch conservation? You make it fun!

Monarch Caterpillars into Butterflies, Children into Scientists, & Parents into Participants! presented by Carolina Benitez, and Veronica Nieto: The monarch is used in classrooms and home-based programs, as well as a way to engage parents in their child’s education and as a way to promote community engagement and nature conservation in communities of Chicago. Through this tool, we have successfully increased parental participation and improved science instruction for both Early Head Start and Head Start, while assisting the US Forest Service with its conservation mission. This project has implications for diverse audiences and has served as a way to encourage vocabulary acquisition, foster understanding of geography, spatial reasoning, stimulate observation, and investigation. Participants will learn how El Valor has utilized and encouraged parents to explore nature in urban communities while supporting their child’s learning and awareness of nature conservation through the Monarch Butterfly.

To register, visit: monarchjointventure.org.