Pollinator Garden
During student teaching we were tasked with completing another project: Creating a DIY project that would help with teacher development. The parameters were a bit looser, which left a lot of room for creativity. My first step was to discuss this with my cooperating teacher. Coincidentally, around this time we were contacted by one of the restoration specialists at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. She told us of an opportunity to work with the Xerces Society to apply for a grant for a pollinator plot on school grounds. Seeing as this would be a fantastic project for this DIY project, my cooperating teacher and I immediately set to work and wrote the grant together. Part of writing this grant was to provide information about the ground where the pollinator plot would go. We teamed up with the grounds crew at Big Spring to work through this portion of writing the grant. We discussed logistics and if we would be able to plow a 50'x60' plot, what the soil type is (we used Web Soil Su...
