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Downloadable Trunk Information

Illinois Pollinators Resources Trunk

Section 1 - General Information

Contents Checklist

Contents Checklist Key

How to Use This Trunk document

IDNR Division of Education promo sheet

IDNR Resources Trunks and Packs for Loan promo page

Learning Standards Correlations document

Online Resources page

Section 2 – What are Pollinators?

Section 2 - Relevant Trunk Resources for Teaching This Topic pages

Section 3 – Why are Pollinators Important?

Section 3 - Relevant Trunk Resources for Teaching This Topic pages

Section 4 – How Does Pollination Work?

Section 4 - Relevant Trunk Resources for Teaching This Topic pages

Section 5 – Helping Pollinators

Section 5 - Relevant Trunk Resources for Teaching This Topic pages

Section 6 – Pollinator Gardens

Section 6 - Relevant Trunk Resources for Teaching This Topic pages

Section 7 – Resource Materials

Section 7 – Resource Materials Index pages

Additional Sources for Pollinator Information, Lessons and other Resources document

Butterfly Activity Guide

Butterfly Gardens brochure

Butterfly Garden Requirements and Plant List document

For Your Garden document

Green Roof/Rooftop Garden document

Habitat Helpers! document

Hive Alive – Bee Bodies lesson

Hive Alive – Everybody has a Job lesson

Hive Alive – Honey lesson

Hive Alive – Swarm lesson

Hive Alive – Tiny Bug Huge Role lesson

How to Plant and Maintain Native Plants document

Hummingbird Garden Requirements and Plant List document

Illinois Biodiversity Field Trip Grant document

Illinois Milkweeds document

Illinois Native Bees document

Illinois Native Plants document

Illinois Pollinators Identification Cards pages

Illinois Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant document

Illinois Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant Projects and the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards document

Illinois Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant Projects and the Next Generation Science Standards document

Monarch Mania! pages

Nests for Native Bees document

Open Woodland Garden document

Passion for Pollinators document

Rain Garden document

Short Prairie Garden document

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination lessons

Tall Prairie Garden document

Teaching about the Magnificent Monarch: Resource Recommendations for Conservation Educators document

The Blossoms, The Birds and The Bees lessons

Tunnel Nests for Native Bees document

Woodland Garden document

You are the Pollinator lesson

Large Container

Honey Bee Life Cycle Stages model

Monarch Life Cycle Stages model