Progress 09/15/07 to 09/14/08
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Outputs Outputs for this grant include: expansion of products to complement Nature's Partners Pollinator Curriculum including a Teachers Guide, reproducible photos and visual aids, post-curriculum assessment, and resources and links available on www.pollinator.org. Dissemination: Through the grant money and support provided by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Pollinator Partnership (formerly known as the Coevolution Institute) and the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) were able to disseminate pollinator outreach materials to students, teachers, educators, County Cooperative Extension Offices, and other organizations around the country. Materials that were disseminated include "Nature's Partners: Plants, Pollinators, and You," a comprehensive pollinator curriculum for students in grade 3-6 available online and easily downloadable (http://www.nappc.org/curriculum/intro.php) and the printing and distribution of pollinator garden wheels (available to view at http://pollinator.org/shop.htm). The Curriculum is available on the Polliantor Partnership website for free download. NAPPC's Youth Education Task Force distributed the curriculum via email, listserv, and bookmark notification to the following organizations: -4-H -all 120+ NAPPC partners (http://www.nappc.org/partnersEn.html) -Pollinator Partnership listserv The Pollinator Garden Wheel was printed in part by funds from this NIFA grant and disseminated to a wide variety or organizations. A sample list is below. Quantities of wheels distributed to each organization varied, ranging from 1 - 500. A total of approximately 2,000 wheels were distributed throughout the U.S. Monarch Watch, Explore Biltmore Outdoor Center, North Mountain Park Nature Center, Ashland Parks and Recreation Department, Allegheny National Forest, University of Maryland, LePort Soil and Conservation District, Michigan State, all 120+ NAPPC partners, and the general public. PARTICIPANTS: The major players on this project include: Laurie Davies Adams, Executive Director Laurie Adams is the Executive Director of the Pollinator Partnership (P2) and has over thirty years experience in management and communications. She began her career at the Public Broadcasting Service, continued in independent film and television, has received numerous awards, including a Gold Medal at the New York International Film and Television Festival. Adams was a Director of the Fortune 500 Shaklee Corporation, has created permanent exhibits in Vancouver, San Francisco, and New York City and produced for Wells Fargo Bank, AT&T, and the Army Corps of Engineers. As Executive Director of the Pollinator Partnership, she has overseen the initial organization and the development of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), the 120 +member collaboration of stakeholders from Mexico, Canada, and the US that work for a variety of fields including science, the environment, agriculture, and private industry. NAPPC's successes under Ms. Adams include the National Academy of Sciences NRC Study on the Status of the Pollinators of North America, the US Postal Service's "Pollination" stamp series, and the US Senate and USDA proclamations creating National Pollinator Week. NAPPC Youth Education Task Force Lynne Cherry, Author and Illustrator Gregory L. Crosby, USDA/CSREES Suzanne DeJohn, National Gardening Association Gordon Frankie, University of California, Berkeley Bill Hilton, Jr., Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History Kelly Lotts, Butterflies and Moths of North America Ella Madsen, University of California, Davis Katie Palm, Education Program Specialist, USBG Jeff Popp, Wildlife Habitat Council Sarah Pounders, National Gardening Association Thelma Redick, Wildlife Habitat Council Dolores Savignano, US Fish and Wildlife Service TARGET AUDIENCES: The target audience for this project included: educators, students, parents, gardeners, environmentalists, and the general public. We were able to target each of these categories of target audiences by asking our 120+ NAPPC partners to help get the word out about the Curriculum and the Wheel, announce their availability on the Pollinator Partnership website, on the Pollinator Partnership listserv, sending the materials to specific groups to disseminate to their audiences (such as 4-H), and more. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
Numerous successful outcomes came from this grant. A change in knowledge occurred when our audience (educators, students, gardeners, etc.) learned and/or became more aware of pollinators and the plants they pollinate. Examples of a change in knowledge due to the development and use of the Nature's Partners Curriculum include increased skills in the following categories: Observation: Using all the senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing to gain information. Communication: Recording discoveries, sharing them, and listening to others who may have observed things other students missed or have different ways of expressing. Comparison: Measurement and sensory observational comparison activities are part of the Nature's Partners Curriculum to encourage students to find similarities and differences. Organization: Students are taught to group and classify their activities into categories. Relationships: Looking for relationships between variables and checking ideas in a systematic way. Once students have an idea about how something works (a hypothesis), they can experiment to test the hypothesis by comparing the effects of one variable on another. Inference: recognize and predict general patterns and relationships, thus forming a more comprehensive theory. Application: Applying knowledge involves using knowledge to solve problems, often in creative and inventive ways. Additionally, another example of the output from this grant stems from the dissemination of the Pollinator Garden Wheel. Fundamental and applied knowledge that stemmed from the Wheel include the application and actual use of pollinator-friendly garden planting recommendations. These new or improved skills are easily applied to home and school gardens.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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