Career Discovery

 

  

•  Pollinator Garden Lesson Plan

 

•    Exploration Activity Grades K-2

 

•    Let's Make and Learn 

 

•    Exploration Activity Grades 3-5

    

•    Pollination Process

 

•    Vocabulary

•  Coloring Sheet

 

 

•  Bonus Activity - Pollinator Garden Art by The Land Group -

  Supplementary Materials

•    Cut-Outs: Butterfly, Bee, Flower, Pollen, Stems 

• Orange Pollination HIVE (grades 1-2) - Pollination HIVE for Grade levels 1-2 introduces the process of plant pollination, pollinators, and examples of plants that rely on pollinators. This game can be used to reinforce concepts of pollination science lessons, used as a supplemental game or scavenger hunt. Plants identified in this game are natives found in the pollinator garden at Historic Fair Hill in Philadelphia. (Botanography) .

• Yellow Pollination HIVE (grades 3-5) - Pollination HIVE for Grade levels 3-5 introduces the process of plant pollination, pollinators, and examples of plants that rely on pollinators. This game can be used to reinforce concepts of pollination science lessons, used as a supplemental game or scavenger hunt. Plants identified in this game are natives found in the pollinator garden at Historic Fair Hill in Philadelphia. (Botanography) .

 

  Teaching Resource (Optional)

 All lesson plan content was created by Taylor Metz, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, PLA and Miranda Mote, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Ph.D.

Taylor Metz, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, PLA (Lessons K¨C5)    

 

 Taylor Metz, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, PLA, is a landscape architect and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Ball State University. Holding a Master of Landscape Architecture from Ball State and a degree in Communication Studies and Art from Gustavus Adolphus College, Metz specializes in educational landscapes, schoolyard design, and design thinking. His teaching and research emphasize design pedagogy, advocacy, and innovative, learner-centered educational environments. Committed to advancing the field of landscape architecture, Metz focuses on creating impactful, inspiring spaces that foster learning, play, and engagement.

Miranda Mote, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Ph.D. (Lessons 6¨C8)

   

 Miranda Mote, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Ph.D., is an architect, historian, artist, and educator based in Philadelphia. She was the 2023¨C24 Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize, Landscape Architecture Fellow. While residing in Rome she exhibited her botanical printmaking at the Academy and at the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, taught at three Italian elementary schools, developed DIGS, a K¨C12 environmental literacy curriculum that uses art to teach language and STEM subjects, and designed a teaching game system, HIVE. In 2022, she established as a 501(c)3 non profit to directly serve students and families in Philadelphia County and believes that environmental justice begins with environmental literacy and children.

 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's Schoolyards in Bloom would not be possible without the support of the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Fund  and TBG.

  

  

Please direct questions about the Schoolyards in Bloom poster and other Career Discovery programming to Lisa J. Jennings, Senior Manager, Career Discovery and Diversity at ljennings@asla.org.