Pollinator Gardening with School Kids: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers

Pollinator Gardening with School Kids: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Teachers

You love to teach, and you love your elementary to middle school students! Now perhaps, just perhaps: You’d like to give your kids instruction in the basics of pollination, You feel it’s important to introduce your kids to saving ecosystems, You’d like an instructional unit that could easily involve the greater community, You’re fine with kids learning by way of a hands-on experience (as opposed to screen time!) You’d like to encourage a sense of responsibility for Mother Earth. If any or all of these statements resonate with you, this little guidebook is aimed in your direction. In it the author walks through the steps necessary to create a pollinator garden at school. Included are lots of suggestions that will allow you to move through the process smoothly even if you have had little or no experience as a gardener. In addition, Pollinator Gardening with School Kids also features valuable information about honeybees, solitary bees, and butterflies which might easily be the foundation for instructional units for students as a supplement to the garden project. The importance of gardening with an eye to conserving our native ecosystems is emphasized, and the information given has wide application that will fit nicely with individual states' academic standards of learning. A pollinator garden can be a source of delight and can have a lasting positive impact on your students and on your local ecosystem as well. Get those kids outside! Dig a pollinator garden at school!