Educators Toolkit
Activities
Pollination Services for a sustainable agriculture
Protocol to detect and assess pollination deficits in crops: a handbook for it’s use
- Understand some basic pollination biology and terminology.
- Understand the relationship: honeybees (+ their food) → crop pollination → our food.
- Understand that the honeybee can be managed by man (just like livestock or crops).
- Understand that we need to assist the honeybee and some ideas of how to take action.
When bees land on a flower, like this one, their feet often slip into a little groove that holds pollen sacs. When the bee flies away it carries off this sack like a bag stuck on its feet.
Activities
The Educators Toolkit activities contain the following:
- Contents Page – recommended activities for various education levels
- Activity 1 – Terms and definitions
- Activity 2 questions – Plants and their pollinators
- Activity 2 answers – Plants and their pollinators
- Activity 3 questions – Plant and pollinator diagram
- Activity 3 answers – Plant and pollinator diagram
- Activity 4a questions – Parts of the plant we eat
- Activity 4a answers – Parts of the plant we eat
- Activity 4b questions – Foods crops pollinators table
- Activity 4b answers – Foods crops pollinators table
- Activity 4c questions – Foods crops pollinators table advanced
- Activity 4c answers – Foods crops pollinators table advanced
- Activity 5 – Importance of pollinators and pollination
- Activity 6a and 6b – Threats and what to do
- Activity 7 – Pollination as an ecosystem service
- Activity 8 – Honeybee forage
- Activity 9 – Ideas for field studies
