MSU Tollgate Farm Pollinator Project Additional Resources
Lesson Plans for Gardening and Pollinator Activities:
- The Pollination Game
- Building a Native Bee Hotel
- MSU 4-H Children's Garden Online Butterfly in the Garden
- Kids Gardening Lesson Plans and Activities
- Cal Academy Lesson Plans on Creating Imaginary Flowers to Attract Pollinators
- Budburst: Operation Flower Dissection by Chicago Botanic Garden
- The SciShow Look Inside a Flower
- The SciShow on Pollination Like a Fruit? Thank a Bee!
- Lesson Plan on Vanilla Pollination and Designing a Pollinator
- Growing Schools Garden
Background Information for Parents and Teachers:
- MSU Native Plants and Ecosystem Services
- Michigan Pollinator Initiative
- MSU Extension Garden Safety for Kids Part 1
- MSU Extension Garden Safety for Kids Part 2
- Wildflowers and Native Plants: What's the Difference?
- Native Flowering Plants that Attract Beneficial Insects
- Attracting Beneficial Insects with Native Flowering Plants
- Protecting and Enhancing Pollinators in Urban Landscapes for the US North Central Region
- Gardening for Pollinators: Smart Plants to Support Pollinators
- Invite Pollinators to Your Garden by Creating a Smart Habitat
- Smart Gardening to Support Monarchs
- Smart Gardening for Pollinators Video
- Smart Gardening for Pollinators Webinar
- Bees of the Great Lakes Region and Wildflowers to Support Them
- MSU Master Gardener Program
- Understand Your Planting "Tools": Plant Hardiness Zones vs. Ecoregions
- Pollinator Friendly Plants for the North East United States
- Xerces Pollinator Plants for the Great Lakes Region
- Pollinator Partnership
- National Gardening Association
Sources for Native Plants:
- Michigan Native Plant Producers Association Member Nurseries
- Wildflower Association of Michigan Business Directory
Children’s Books about Pollinators:
- The Bee Book by Charlotte Milner
- Bees, Bugs, and Butterflies: A Family Guide to Our Garden Heroes and Helpers by Ben Raskin
- Flowers Are Calling by Rita Gray and Kenard Pak
- Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate by Sara Levine & Masha D'yans
- The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall and Isabelle Arsenault
- Jack’s Garden by Henry Cole
- Little Honeybee by Katie Haworth
- Stories from Bug Garden by Lisa Moser & Gwen Millward
- Where Butterflies Grow by Joanne Ryder