Curriculum
- NAPPC Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants, and You
- Nature's Partners: A Comprehensive Pollinator Curriculum for Grades 3-6 with educators guide from The Bee Cause Project
- NACD Pollinator Field Day Curriculum Guide
- Pollinator Partnership's Pollinator Gardening Curriculum
- The Great Pollinator Partnership lesson ideas
- Order Free Pollinator Posters and Educational Wheels for the Classroom by Visiting Here!
- National Academies Resources on Pollinators
- Pollinator Live - Find a series of live interactive webcasts, satellite field trips, and web seminars about pollinators, gardening, and conservation. PollinatorLIVE is geared to grades 4 to 8.
- Discovery Education Pollination Idea - Butterflies Lesson Plans
- Discovery Education Pollination Idea - Plant Pollination Lesson Plans
- Monarch Butterfly Conservation Talking Points
- Powerpoint Presentations for Teaching from Michigan State University - Attracting Beneficial Insects with Native Flowering Plants
- Sweet Virginia Hive Alive Lesson Plans
- Abuzz for Honey Bees - Day 1, Day 2
- Pennsylvania Game Commission - Seedlings for Schools
- BeeCause Curriculum: The Complete 6 Week Bee Unit + Teacher Guides
Educational Tools
- "Measuring Results" Executive Summary
- "Measuring Results" Full Version
- Bee Smart School Garden Kit
- Plight of the Pollinator: How You and Your Garden are Needed Brochure Click to download
- Protecting Monarch: What You Can Do To Support Monarch Butterflies Click to download
- Plight of the Pollinator: Save Money, Time and Energy with IVM and Energy Rights-of-Way for Wild PollinatorsClick to download
- Protecting Pollinators: Why and How Pesticide Applicators Can Help Them Click to download
- For a printed copies of any brochures or learning more about them, please visit: http://www.pollinator.org/nappc/brochures.htm
- Pollinator Activity Book
- NAPPC Posters
- Pollinator Live - Find a series of live interactive webcasts, satellite field trips, and web seminars about pollinators, gardening, and conservation. PollinatorLIVE is geared to grades 4 to 8.
- Children's novels about honey bees
- Boy Scout Starter Bee Pollination Kit
- Children's Monarch Books
Activities
- Crayola Canada Pollinator Themed Activities:
- Indoor Activities and Learning Opportunities
- How to Build a Pollinator Garden
- Bee Smart School Garden Kit
- Your Urban Garden is Better with Bees
- What You Can Do For Pollinators
- 5 Things Kids Can Do to Help Pollinators
- PBS Interactive Pollinator Game
- Conservation Activites for Kids
- Pollinator Live - Find a series of live interactive webcasts, satellite field trips, and web seminars about pollinators, gardening, and conservation. PollinatorLIVE is geared to grades 4 to 8.
- Insect Lore - Live Butterfly Kits
Facts
- What is a Pollinator?
- Pollinator Syndromes
- Honey Bee Disappearances (CCD) and What You Can Do
- What are Hummingbirds?
- Conserving Native Bees on Farmland
Helpful Links
- “Starting a Wildlife Habitat Garden” Bay Nature
- Bee Identification Guides
- Why We Need Bees - Dennis vanEngelsdorp (Moon Magazine 2013)
- Time Magazine "The Buzz on Bees" (Nov. 6, 2006)
- “In the Key of Bee” Bay Nature
- “Buzz Pollination” Bay Nature
- Biology Dictionary
- Entomology 101: Study of Insects
- “Gardening for Wildlife with Native Plants” Bay Nature
- “What’s the Buzz? Native Bees!” Bay Nature
- Eastern Forests and Woodlands
- Environmental Science
- Links to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:
- Links to U.S. Forest Service:
- Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets:
- Newsletter Articles
- Bee Informed, Bee Prepared
- Going Batty
- "Hummers": Fuel Efficient and Environmentally Friendly
- Like a Moth to a Flower
- Yellow Jackets
- Your Urban Garden is Better with Bee
- Link from Ravenswood Media : http://cavebiota.com/ www.midwestfrogs.com video of calling frogs and interviews with scientists about frog issues, including declines and malformation. www.envirovet.org interviews with wildlife veterinarians about wildlife health issues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID0h30gHVdw&feature=channel_page a butterfly piece for the Notebeart Nature Museum
- Identifying Natural Enemies in Crops and Landscapes
- Ecologically Based Farming Systems
- "Resonating Bodies", a series of mixed media installations and community outreach projects which focuses on biodiversity of pollinators
- Insect Discovery Lab
- Free book about honey bees