For Classrooms

Plants Pollinators and Imposters (grades 7-12)

• • Students will understand the diversity of possible interactions between invasive plants, pollinators and native plants, and the need to investigate these interactions.

Pollinator Attraction I: Pollinator observation field study (grades 4-12)

• • Students will investigate how invasive plants affect the pollination of a native plant by completing a field experiment with timed observations of pollinators.

  • Click here for pollinator ID Guide

  • Click here for student lab worksheet

Pollinator Attraction II: Pollen Detectives Lab (grades 4-12)

• Students will continue their exploration of questions begun in the previous lesson by collecting additional evidence from the stigmas of the native plants.

• Click here for pollen ID Guide

• Click here for student lab worksheet

Engage Youth in our Citizen Science Monitoring Program (grades K-12)

• Summer youth camp or summer youth groups such as 4-H, scouts, or church groups can contribute to a real scientific research project!