Growing Your Secret Garden: The Low-Maintenance Pollinator Garden
In this multi-day class, students will learn how to grow, observe, and maintain a pollinator garden while also learning how to save the Monarch butterflies from extinction.
Dr. Lorette Weldon
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:(35)
What's included
4 live meetings
4 in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade 4 - 5
This class is an attempt to assemble quantitative data on monarch and other butterfly numbers at critical times during the breeding season. The data from these observations will be used to assess their value in predicting trends in the population. The data received will help explain some aspects of monarch migration and "pre-migration". Students will allow plants to grow madly and flower their hearts out, to allow them to entangle with other plants in the beds so the overall effect is a glorious intermingling of different colored flowers. This saves them from having to mulch, there is no weeding (in this class there is no such thing as a weed), and not much need for feeding, as the prunings take care of that by rotting back down. The garden becomes an expression of each of the students. Every garden is created and cared for in a way that is an expression of its owner. Students will be able to decide if they want open spaces; neat rows of flowers; straight lines with all plants spaced exactly evenly, or a garden with no straight lines at all. Example Class Schedule: Week 1 : What happened to the bees and who is Rachel Carson? Week 2 : How to establish your 1st Low Maintenance Garden Week 3 : Planting your garden by knowing the county laws Week 4 : Conduct a 2 year survey of your yard to find out what your pollinator garden has become over the years. Permission was granted to use animal puppets from The Puppet Company Ltd. and ©Folkmanis, Inc. Personal Video Clips and photographs of Lake Artemesia in Berwyn Heights, MD are used.
Other Details
Language of Instruction
English
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring.
Weldon, U. (2010). The Park Memory Challenge.
Weldon, U. (2016). Lake Artemesia in Pictures.
Weldon, Ulysses (September 5, 1979). What happened to the bees?, Washington Star.
Weldon, L. S. J. (2018). Virtual Me: Bringing the Field Back to the Classroom. Computers in
Libraries, 38(6).
Weldon, L. S. J. (2019). myON: Enabling Digital Reading for Best Results in Pre-K–6 Education.
Computers in Libraries, 39(1).
Weldon, L. S. J. (2020). How to Build a STEM Library to Support Student Research. Computers
in Libraries, 40(4), 32.
Weldon, L. S. J. (2020). Using Bibliometrics to Build a Free Resource Library for Your Students. Computers in Libraries, 40(4).
Joined April, 2020
4.8
35reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
3 Degrees
Doctoral Degree in Education from Argosy University
Master's Degree in Management Information Systems from University of Maryland at College Park
Bachelor's Degree in English Language and Literature from University of Maryland in College Park
I have over 20 years of experience teaching in college and universities and elementary schools. I am a veteran educator with the following degrees: a doctorate in Education Leadership; a Master's in Library and Information Science; a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management; a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature; 2-year Library Media Specialist Certification; 6 years as a Children and Adult Librarian at Prince George's County Public Library System. I have been successful at creating two interactive nature walks in a public school system ( virtual and mixed media).
I brought a national park to a public school system without students having to leave the school on a bus for this field trip.
Permission granted to use Folkmanis Puppets.
Live and Video Clips of Monarch Butterflies taken July 28, 2020, and up to and including when this class is in session.
Reviews
Live Group Class
$100
for 4 classes1x per week, 4 weeks
60 min
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-11
3-6 learners per class
