Resources
How to Measure Learning
Below is an exam that has been created and tested to assess student learning regarding pollinators and the environment. It measures knowledge, attitude and motivation regarding the curriculum and learning activities in this project and was designed to be administered as a pre and post-test so that ‘change’ can be quantified. We delivered the tests through Qualtrics survey but will provide them here as pdf question list lists. Feel free to use these questions in any way that suits your teaching style.
How To Measure Impact
Learning is the first step in transitioning students into active ambassadors of a program. What students DO because of what they have learned is the essence of impact. Transferring learning from knowledge gained into attitudinal change, then into motivational drive ultimately becomes actions, which is the impact objective of this program.
Measuring impact can be done by recording the results of a specially designed series of challenges. The 14 badges developed for this program contain challenges that help students DO and then REPORT ON in various ways.
A vehicle that we used to facilitate badge issuing and reporting is Passport and is described on the Badge Challenge page. Some teachers prefer other methods. Regardless of the method, the ultimate goal is to provide students with concrete and measurable activities that will move them from simply learners to become doers.
Teachers have requested that the electronic lists from the badge challenges page be made available in pdf form to allow downloading and printing to makes them easier to deliver as homework assignments and for discussion in classes or laboratories. Whatever method works best for you as teachers is encouraged. Feel free to modify and employ the challenges below in any way that fits your teaching style.
Websites
- U.S. Forest Service – Pollinators
- Monarch Butterfly Conservation
- American Meadows – Midwest Wildflower Seeds
- Bumble Bee Watch
- Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service – Midwest Region Endangered Species
- iNaturalist
- Beyond Pesticides – What is Integrated Pest Management?
- Scottish Wildlife Trust – What is nectar robbing and why do only some bumblebees do it?
- BuzzAboutBees – The Different Types of Bees
- Dabur – Types of Honey
- Galway Beekeepers
- Pesticide Environmental Stewardship – Pollinator Protection
- Pesticide Environmental Stewardship
- Honey Bee Extension at Purdue
Articles
- Modern Farmer – Build a Native Bee Hotel
- Pesticides found in monarchs’ milkweed near farm fields
- BeeKeeper Center – How Bees Make Wax
Photo Gallery
PDFs
Video Clips
- Leonard Lab – Buzz Pollination
- Perils to Pollinators During Agronomic Crop Production
- What is Killing the Bees
- The Beauty of Pollination – Moving Art™
- Bats are power pollinators!
- Butterfly pollinating flower
- Butterfly Pollinating Marigold
- Flower Pollination
- How Do Bees Make Honey?
- Hummingbird Pollinating
- Kids Learn Why Bees are Important
- Like Fruit? Thank a Bee
- Look Inside a Flower! | Science Project for Kids
- Parts of a flower and Pollination | The Dr. Binocs Show | Learn Videos For Kids
- Pollination Rock
- Slo-Mo Footage of a Bumble Bee Dislodging Pollen
- This Is Not A Bee
- Time-Lapse: Watch Flowers Bloom Before Your Eyes | Short Film Showcase
- Time Lapse of Strawberry Plant
- What’s the Buzz on Pollinators: Hummingbird Facts