Planning your MLMP Workshop
Workshop Contents
• Project goals and background
• Key project findings
• Monarch biology and identification
• Directions for monitoring
• Data entry methods
• Importance of accuracy
• PRACTICE
• TREATS
Volunteer Profiles
• Local citizens
• Nature Center volunteers
• Adults with Kids
• Youth groups taking classes
• Other?
Teaching Strategies
• Hands-on activities/variety of formats
• Stress importance of project
– Promoting monarch conservation
– Increased understanding of monarch biology
– Real scientific research
• Deal with obstacles
– Time
– Finding a site to monitor
– Filling out the forms
• Treats!
Common “Mistakes” to
Nip in the Bud
• Small sample size
• Missing number of plants observed
• Non-random sampling
– For monarch density (choice of plants)
– For milkweed density (choice of transect and plots)
• Inaccurate ID of eggs and larval instars
• Careless observation of plants
You are now a
monarch expert!
• You can train volunteers to
monitor accurately and well!
• This program will be a great
addition to your nature
center!
• You and your volunteers will
have fun, learn lots, and
make important
contributions!