Pollinator Habitat Kit for the Sonoran Desert Region

The Pollinator Habitat Kit provides resources and instructions for K-12 teachers to help them design and implement a Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat Garden with their students. The kit includes activities developed by Desert Museum Education Staff for using the Garden as an outdoor classroom to teach principles of plant biology, pollination ecology, plant/pollinator interactions, and adaptations of desert plants and animals. Plant cards, instructions, and activities are also available in Spanish.

Each Kit includes:

• 36 pollinator plant cards that include original illustrations of desert plants in bloom and detailed descriptions of plant care, natural habitat, uses, and pollinator associations.

• Teachers Manual (PDF): this manual provides step-by-step instructions for designing, planting, and caring for wildlife habitat garden and background information on plants, animals and their interactions.

• K-5 activities for designing the Wildlife Habitat Garden and using it as an outdoor classroom.

• Resource Lists for funding, local organizations, websites, and other reference materials, activity books, and science kits related to wildlife habitat gardening.

• Additional resources for teachers for designing, implementing, and using a schoolyard pollinator garden. Include activity books, gardening/xeriscaping books and guides, school gardening program guides, wildlife guides and brochures, and children's books.

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The Teacher's Manual and Pollinator Plant Cards can be downloaded from this web site. To borrow the complete kit, contact Yajaira F. Gray, Outreach Coordinator via email or at 520-883-3018.