Neighborhood Explorers: Let's Go Outside

Wildlife Website for Kids

Neighborhood Explorers: Let's Go Outside! for 8-11 year olds, their educators and caregivers, the website is geared to reach those children not currently participating in outdoor programs and activities.

Learn about and explore pollinators and other wildlife using Neighborhood Explorers. The overall goal of the Neighorhood Explorer game is to meet the audience where they are – on the computer – and offer a “safe” place to explore nature. Then, as their comfort level grows, explorers are encouraged to go outside to explore their “real” neighborhoods. Pollinators are featured in: Lucy's Story, Lucy's Challenge, and NX Detective Game

Pollinator Podcasts

PowerPoint Presentation:

The Birds and the Bees and . . .The Beetles? Why we should care about pollinators
(Print quality 5 MB or Screen Quality 3.5 MB)

This PowerPoint Presentation was developed by the Fish and Wildlife Service for refuges, parks, nature centers, scouts, 4-H, and others to download and use as an introduction to local observation of pollinators.

Go! Wild

Pollinators are featured in issue number six of "GO! Wild" an environmental education activity guide from Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

Environmental Education Webcasts for schools

Monarch Live!

"Monarch Live: A Distance Learning Adventure" promotes conservation action through education and awareness.

"Nature's Partners. Pollinators, Plants and You" © The Pollinator Partnership

Nature’s Partners: Pollinators, Plants and You

The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign's Pollinator Partnership™ has launched a new curriculum, Nature’s Partners: Pollinators, Plants and You, designed to help students in grades 3-6 study the interactions of plants and pollinators. The North American Pollinator Protection Campaign is coordinated by the non-profit Coevolution Institute. The Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with the two groups to protect pollinators by working together to help conserve pollinators and raise awareness of the importance of pollinators.

Bay Checkerspot Butterfly. Credit: T. W. Davies, California Academy of Science

Materials/Press Release

Critical Habitat Proposed for Bay Checkerspot Butterfly Proposed (8/22/2007)

Articles and Fact Sheets:

"Bringing a Butterfly Back From the Brink" from the Fall 2009 issue of the Endangered Species Bulletin

Partners in Pollination: "Pollinators, Plants and People" from the Summer 2008 issue of the Endangered Species Bulletin

Pollinator Conservation and Education overview of how the Service is Involved in Pollinator Conservation. March 2008.

Monarchs on the Move - Monarch Butterflies are featured in the newest issues of the Service's Chesapeake Bay Field Office quarterly newsletter - On the Wild Side! Fall 2007.

Whole Lot of Buzzing Going On - Article from Refuge Update, January/February 2007, on bee surveys at Carolina Sandhills NWR, SC

"Bees and the Lane Mountain Milk-vetch" . Article from the Endangered Species Bulletin. November 2006.

Learning About the Birds and Bees . Article from the Fish and Wildlife News - Special Issue: Children and Nature (4 MB ) November 2006.

"The Conservation of Pollinating Species" . Article from the Endangered Species Bulletin. July 2006.

Focus...on Pollinators: Why We Should Care About Pollinators . Article from Refuge Update Newsletter. March/April 2006

Fact Sheet: Reducing Risks to Pollinators from Pest Management Activities

Take Pride in America - Friends of Anahuac Refuge Project: Refuge Update Nov/Dec 2005 (pp 3)