Growing a Pollinator Garden

• 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.

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.