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Bee the Change: Investigate the critical issue of pollinator decline and create conservation solutions.
Guiding Problem: From agricultural systems to natural ecosystems to the communities we live in, pollinators play a critical role in the functionality of the world around us. As their populations are steadily declining, we must explore the challenge and develop creative solutions.
Ideal for middle school and high school audiences, this five-lesson PBL curriculum, aligned with AFNR standards, aims to empower and motivate students to ask questions, explore conservation, and take action toward solutions that will positively impact pollinator species in their communities.
Its a Pollinators World
Establish core knowledge of pollinators and their role in ecosystems, agriculture, and everyday life
Land of Opportunity
Explore agriculture's relationship with the natural environment and how pollinator habitat needs can be met across diverse landscapes
Factors of Pollinator Decline/ Murder Mystery in the Meadow
Examine the challenging issue of pollinator decline and how this impacts ecosystems and agricultural systems
The Nectar Neighborhood
Explore Habitat restoration and pollinator conservation
Agents of Change
This curriculum culminates into a student designed action plan to address pollinator decline
Acknowledgments:
PBL designed in conjunction with The Butterfly Pavilion
These lessons and the Pollinator Puzzle: Investigating decline and creating conservation solutions Problem-Based Learning Curriculum are signature activities of CAM's Agriculture Academy.
We look forward to partnering with you and kindly ask that you respect our intellectual property rights by not reproducing them without proper acknowledgment and authorization. The Pollinator Puzzle: Investigating decline and creating conservation solutions PBL was created in a partnership between CSU Agricultural Education’s CAM’s Agriculture Academy and The Butterfly Pavilion. We would like to thank the Butterfly Pavilion team and their researchers for ensuring the validity of this curriculum.
Funding for the Pollinator Puzzle: Investigating decline and creating conservation solutions PBL was made possible through a gift from the Morgridge Family Foundation. We thank the Morgridge Family for their generosity and commitment to Agricultural Education.
The framework of the CAM’s PBL lesson plan model is derived from the 5E model of instruction developed by Rodger Bybee.
Bybee, R. (2009) THE BSCS 5E INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL AND 21ST CENTURY SKILLS. The National Academies Board on Science Education. https://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/dbassesite/documents/webpage/dbasse_073327.pdf
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