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Database Provider

National Wildlife Federation

Author

National Wildlife Federation

Grades

K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th

Subjects

Science, Biology, Climate Action

Resource Types

  • Activity - Classroom
  • Activity - Outdoors
  • Worksheet

Regional Focus

Global

Format

PDF

Growing a Pollinator Garden

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Synopsis
  • This engaging activity guides students through the process of growing a pollinator garden.
  • The guide thoroughly explains how to set up a pollinator garden, monitor it, and collect data on its success.
Teaching Tips

Positives

  • Students will benefit from having an understanding of the importance of pollinators.
  • This engaging, easy-to-follow activity is suitable to be used as a classroom activity or at-home project.
  • The activity incorporates opportunities to embed science, civics, and mathematics skills and understanding easily over the course of the school year. 

Additional Prerequisites

  • If students are completing the activity at home, measurement and data collection skills will be necessary.
  • Coir pellets, seeds, and appropriate growing containers are necessary for this activity. 

Differentiation

  • Elementary science classes could use this activity alongside the picture books Bee and Me and Old Enough to Save the Planet.
  • This activity could be used as part of the action plan after completing StC's Green Spaces Unit. 
  • Mathematics and science classes could use this activity to thoroughly embed data collection and measurement skills throughout the year. 
  • Older elementary mathematics classes could use the collected data to create line and plot graphs. 
  • Schools or classes wishing to further engage in school gardening could use the resource Resources for Building a School Garden.
Scientist Notes
The resource is a pollinator guide. It contains step-by-step activities to enable students to know the benefits of pollinators in plant reproduction and growth. This is recommended for teaching.
Standards

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  • Mathematics
    • Measurement & Data (K-5)
      • 1.MD.A.1 Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.
      • 1.MD.C.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
      • 2.MD.A.1 Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
      • 2.MD.A.2 Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.
      • 2.MD.A.3 Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
      • 2.MD.A.4 Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.
      • 2.MD.D.9 Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units.
  • Science
    • ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
      • K-ESS3-1. Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
      • K-ESS3-3. Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
      • 5-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
    • LS2: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
      • 2-LS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
      • 2-LS2-2. Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
      • 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
      • MS-LS2-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
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