Busy World of Bees

This curriculum is crafted to engage youth in celebrating bees and their pollinator allies and build an understanding of the benefits that bees and other pollinators provide to humans, as well as the fact that all bees need our help to do their work. Youth will also explore the diversity and differences within habitats and garner further understanding of what honey bees, native bees and other pollinators need to grow and thrive.

Farm to School

Farm to School is a movement that strives to build a youth’s connection to healthy, local food through school gardening, farm field trips, hands-on cooking and nutrition education and sourcing of local fresh fruits and vegetables to school cafeterias.

Hive Helpers

Every spring and summer, youth and adults alike enjoy sweet-smelling flowers and listening to the buzzing sound that comes from the rapidly beating wings of busy bees. Through a series of seven lessons and multiple experiential activities, youth will learn how critical bees are to our agricultural industry and native ecosystems.

Winged Wonders

Follow the wondrous transformation of the caterpillar of a painted lady butterfly into a chrysalis to the emergence of a fancy, flighted adult butterfly! Winged Wonders is a hands-on exploration of animal life cycles through the lens of raising live butterflies. Youth explore the parts of an insect, habitat, life cycle and grow an appreciation and understanding of the role of insects as part of our ecosystems.