Pollinator Garden

Pollinators are essential for food production and every school food garden needs to also have a pollinator garden.  Pollinator gardens can assist in teaching subjects such entomology, horticulture, geography (insect migration) and literature.  Have your students compose a haiku to thank the pollinators!

Have your classroom be a part of the Great Georgia Pollinator Census taking place August 23rd and 24th, 2019.  For more information visit GGaPC.org.  

Lessons

• The Pollinator's Journey
• Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
• Power of Pollinators

The movie "The Flight of the Butterflies" is an excellent documentary on the monarch butterflies migration to Mexico.

Plants

• The Eco-Friendly Garden:  Attracting Pollinators, Beneficial Insects and Other Natural Predators
• The Xerces Society Plant Lists

Resources

• Pollinator Partnership
• Pollinator Spaces Project
• Teacher Training Web Seminars
• Monarch Watch
• Creating a Pollinator Garden

Projects

• Creating Bee Boxes to Help Native Bees
• You Tube of Creating a Butterfly Puddle with Walter Reeves
• Have your garden listed on the Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail
• Have your garden become a Monarch WayStation