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Education has an important role in North American pollinator recovery. Because pollination involves complex interrelationships in the natural world organized education, whether at schools, informal instructional settings, or by professions is very important. There are many educational programs of varying depths, audiences and distribution that have been developed for pollinators over the years. The following list is a sampling of some of these resources.
AgPollinators: Collection of quality programs in one place
Pollinator Partnership Resources
Pollinator Partnership Ecoregional Planting Guides
National Wildlife Federation: Garden for Wildlife Pollinator Resources
USDA Forest Service Monarch Butterfly Education Resources
Educators
Looking for ways to engage your students in the pollinator conversation? This section provides a variety of resources for you to explain the connection between pollinators, plants and people! Here you will learn the basics of planting a pollinator garden as well as have access to pollinator activities that can be done right in the classroom or at home:
Curricula and Lessons
Pollinator Live and Project Learning Tree and U.S.D.A Forest Service
Montana Department of Agriculture (Sample of state-based program)
Nature’s Partners: The Pollinator Partnership
Monarchs in the Classroom: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Pollinator Partnership: BeeSmart TM School Garden Kit
The Power of Pollinators: Xerces Society
Next Generation Science Standards
An example of Next NGSS Lesson Plan by S & K
National Environmental Education Foundation Pollinator Guide
University of Minnesota Monarch Lab’s Education & Gardening site: The Monarch Lab provides an abundance of educational tools, workshops, and expertise through a variety of different programs aiming to promote and facilitate inquiry-based education through original curricula and research opportunities, many of which involve schoolyard gardens.
Journey North resources: Journey North has a wide variety of monarch resources ranging from slideshows to activities to infographics about every stage of the monarch migration and life cycle.
Flight of the Butterflies classroom activities: Curricula and activities based on the Flight of the Butterflies film.
Plant Lists:
National Wildlife Federation Native Plants
Pollinator Partnership Eco-Regional Planting Guides
Xerces Society Pollinator-Friendly Plant Lists
National Gardening Association Pollinator Garden Resources
MonarchWatch.org Milkweed Market
Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center Plant Lists
North American Butterfly Association Butterfly Garden & Habitat Program
American Floral Endowment Bee & Pollinator Stewardship Initiative
Audubon Native Plants Database
Monarch Joint Venture Create Habitat for Monarchs
American Horticultural Society Planting for Pollinators
Herb Society of America Green Bridges Initiative
Smithsonian Gardens Pollinator Gardens
US Fish and Wildlife Service Save the Monarch Butterfly
USDA The People’s Garden Pollinator Garden
Examples of School Garden Programs:
National Wildlife Federation Schoolyard Habitats
Captain Planet Foundation Learning Gardens
Pollinator Partnership: Your school and pollinators
Monarch Waystation Program: Monarch Watch
US Botanic Garden School Garden Wizard
Wild Ones Seeds for Education (SFE) Program
MJV Schoolyard Gardens Fact Sheet
Examples of Pollinator Citizen Science Programs
Xerces Bee Monitoring Protocol
Journey North: Monarch Butterflies
Pennsylvania Pollinator Monitoring Guide (Sample of state program)
Ecological Society of America: Pollination Toolkit
Monarch Larva Monitoring Project
Wild Ones Citizen Science Monitoring
Examples of Training and Education for Professionals
NAPPC Eco-regional Planting Guides: Pollinator Partnership
Pollinator Friendly Parks: Xerces
Creating a Pollinator Friendly Landscape: Oklahoma Kerr Center
Bay Friendly Landscaping and Gardening: California
Farmers/Land Mangars Practical guide: Habitat Creation and Management for Pollinators
Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council
Missouri Native Plants for Landscapers Guide
Ontario Horticultural Association Guide to Creating Pollinator Patches
Department of Energy & Environment Pollinator Gardening
Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™), an interdisciplinary partnership led by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the United States Botanic Garden to transform land development and management practices through the nation’s first voluntary guidelines and rating system for sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings.