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In recent years we have seen a greater awareness of the importance of pollinators like birds, butterflies, and bees. But what about all the other pollinators that form our ecosystems? Find out what we're overlooking with this selection from The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman.
Bee balm is good for pollinators as well as being tasty and medicinal for us, these 5 ways to use bee balm will help you keep it in your home.
These fascinating plants that attract hummingbirds to your garden offer a wonderful combo of flora and fauna, including gorgeous honeysuckle and cardinal flowers.
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This game has students think critically about different kinds of pollinators and what type of flower they pollinate. It helps them understand the relationship between the pollinator and the flower - shape and size, color and scent, the time of day they blossom.
Meet the first ever Cascade Hydrangea available in North America! We're confident you'll love its unique horizontal growing habit, with each trailing stem absolutely brimming with blooms. Its florets are filled with deckle-edged petals, bringing a frilly, lacy look to the landscape. There are no limits to the ways you can use Fairytrail Bride in the garden - it's ready to wow your neighbors in hanging baskets, containers, cascading over retaining walls, and filling in mixed beds! 3 feet tall and wide at maturity Grow in zones 6-9 Plant in partial to full sun in northern climates and part sun (4+ hours daily) in southern climates Care: Avoid pruning Cascade hydrangeas, except to remove any dead wood. These hydrangeas cannot be cut back or trimmed at any time of the year without impacting the bloom for either the current season or the next. Though they do rebloom readily on new wood, the best display comes from treating them as though they bloom only old wood. Shipping Info: Enjoy free shipping on orders over $75 Size at shipping varies by the season and plant 1-gallon shrubs are 6-24" tall at shipment Quart shrubs are 5-8" tall at shipment Shrubs ship dormant November through April Read our guide to get started with planning a garden
Gather up some pinecones and turn them into these mini bats!
Bee kind to our pollinators, be happy, and get lost in your favorite mountain meadow to smell the wildflowers. What's your favorite? Indian Paintbrush? Black-eyed Susan? Lupine? Find them all with this graphic T-Shirt.
My Handcrafted Bumblebees would make the perfect gift for any pollinator or nature lover! Due to the handmade nature of each item, slight variations may occur. These differences only make each item unique and one of a kind! Because this item is made with safety eyes it is not intended for children younger than 3 years old or pets. Pattern: @onecentcrochet
A 3D printable bee craft for kids. Make a realistic model of a honey bee complete with anatomy labels using our printable template
A lesson plan to teach all about plant pollination and pollinators for Kids
Top 8 Native Shade Pollinator Plants for Maryland Piedmont region. At LGS we like to make lists and we’re also plant nerds so lists of our favorite plants are the best! Here are 8 of our FAV shade natives for pollinators. What are yours? 1.Coral Bells– Heuchera americana are a must have in any […]
Hand drawn coloring page shows bees on flowers with scattered pollen. "Bees get food from flowers. As they collect nectar, bees carry pollen around to different flowers, helping the plants reproduce. Pollination is a kind of mutualism because both organisms benefit."8.5 x 11 .pdfPrint "fit to page" ...
Attract pollinators and help the ecosystem at the same time? Read "How to Attract Pollinators" & learn our 5 simple steps to attract pollinators year-round!
Insects, birds, and other pollinators are attracted to nectar and pollen-producing flowers in bloom that they like nearby. Pollinators visit their favorite kinds of flowers, often native. Flowers l…
Back in May we went to the 'science rendevous', an annual science fair in Toronto, Canada. There were lots of games and hands on activities for the children. I particularly enjoyed this Pollinator game, to explain the process of plant reproduction. Flowers were made with large bright petals, and at the centre a plastic drinks bottle with a whole cut in it large enough to reach inside the bottle. You'll need to make at least two of these flowers. The bottle had tiny pom poms placed in the bottom. This is the pollen. Each child was given an insect to pollinate the flowers, made of a lollipop stick with an insect sticker on the end. On the back of the lollipop stick was a sticky pad. The pad was removed... and then the insect pollinator could reach into the flower and collect the pom-pom pollen. Once you've loaded up with pollen... You go to the next flower and pollinate it. This is a great way for young children to learn about pollination. Back home in England, we carried on learning about plant parts, pollination and fertilization. As the flowers were in full bloom in the garden, why learn from a book. We looked at a flower diagram and then we identified the parts on real flowers in the garden. We had a great morning in the garden looking at the flowers, watching the bees and butterflies visiting them. We talked about how the flowers are adapted to insect and wind pollination and Jemima enjoyed taking photos.
Discover the best flowering shrubs that bees love to draw these and other pollinators into yards. From planting tips to bloom times, we show you them all.
Did you know that June 17 – June 23 is Pollinator Week? Today kicks off a weeklong celebration of Mother Nature’s little helpers – the bees, bugs and little mammals that help maintain nature’s delicate balance. Without pollinators, agricultural economies, our food supply, and surrounding landscapes would collapse. Not to mention the beauty we would […]
I've done this project with Kindergarten students and a similar one with 1st graders ever since I can remember. But it's one of those oldies but goodies! I'm sure many of you have done something similar. This is usually a close to end of year project. The students get excited when I tell them we are going to make a butterfly with paint, but we are not going to use brushes and our fingers will not touch the paint! We review the primary colors and I demonstrate how they will fold the paper - "short side to short side". We open the paper up and I squirt some of the primary colors in lines an drips on one side in the shape of a V. I refold the paper and show the students how to gently rub in circles on the folded paper. They will feel the paint be squished around. I used to use say "wax on - wax off" with the students...but only the occasional aide in the classroom knows what I mean these days! After rubbing the paper the student is excited when I tell them to open it up and see what you got. The Oooo's and Ahh's that always follow bring smiles. While I do this with a couple of students at a time at a table, the students work on making a butterfly body on black paper using construction paper crayons. Here's my example - The next class we will cut out the dried paint wings and glue the body onto it. I do a similar project with my 1st graders. We do the same process only with one color + black on bottom and white on the top to help teach value tints and shades. Instead of a butterfly they make a longer body to create a dragonfly.
This week we'll be taking it easy with 2 lapbooks { Bee / Electricity } - it was either do that or lose an entire week to nothingness. So I chose the former. At any rate I decided to put my own Bee lapbook together. { I bought the Electricity one } So here's how I went: { A cover... } Vocabulary words - in matchbook formats. This time I thought to add cut and paste vocabulary with it as well. The compare and contrast trifold on the far right flap. Tri-fold opened up. A reading passage on Bees. I must admit, I learnt all sorts of interesting things while researching for this project. A junior cloze. I did make a secondary cloze for higher leveled learners, and that is in the file as well. Pockets........ with booklet inserts. Label the bee. This time I put the words into little boxes so that they could also be cut and pasted if so desired. Additionally, I also updated/corrected the words in the box in he file. Life cycle of the bee. Yep, cut and paste available for this one too. :) Writing project. Copywork options available as well. Additionally, I also provided a higher grade leveled writing paper option for older students. Drawing project: living in the hive. The little booklets that go into the pockets. A view of what it looks like when you first open it up. When I turn the passage over. Yeah, so that's one of the lapbooks we'll be doing this week. This particular one is for the 5 year old. The Miss 8, 10, and 12 year olds are going to put their own together. At any rate, if you're interested in this download I have it in my store { discounted actually } for a bargain $2. It won't stay that way forever though - eventually I'll have to put it up to it's real price of $4. Click HERE to go check it out in the store. Thanks so much for visiting.
The Mother Goose Time theme for April is Bees and Butterflies and we dug in a bit early to celebrate spring and start a unit on bugs for Monkey to earn her Insect badge for American Heritage Girls. This theme
Fun and engaging pollinator yoga poses for kids. Kids are fascinating by pollinators so why not teach more about them while moving!
Alliums are in the same family as garlic, onions, chives and shallots. This makes gardeners wonder if they should include them in their ornamental gardening plans, as it conjures up images of supermarket produce. Alliums rounded blooms make for high drama and interest in the garden because good garden designs are often made up of different shapes. The Allium group gets more popular annually, from over 300 species to choose. They amaze everyone, and few plants create this kind of wow in the garden. Rosy Dream is an elegant, compact ornamental onion producing pinkish flowerheads atop strong stems. Good pollinator, and/or for containers and smaller gardens. Makes for a great cut flower as well.
