About This Lesson
Growing a Wild NYC: A K-5 Urban Pollinator Curriculum was designed to engage students in learning about pollinator habitats, the connections between plants and animals, and our role in the environment. It is a placed-based curriculum which allows students to learn about biodiversity, ecosystems and habitats through direct experience and observation. By extending the classroom to the city’s parks and gardens, students learn directly from nature, awakening their senses, thinking, and curiosity. The culmination is the creation of their own schoolyard pollinator habitat, in which they are able to apply all they have learned to help solve a real problem and contribute to the restoration of habitat connectivity in our urban environment. The curriculum contains twenty lessons organized by season, beginning in September. The lessons reflect what is happening in nature and take advantage of opportunities for field observation. Although the lessons build sequentially, teachers may wish to pick and choose lessons. The lessons can be aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards suggested at the end of each lesson.
