Pollinator Posters

Looking for more information on our local pollinators? Mrs. Kromer’s third grade class has you covered! The students have prepared posters and brochures about honey bees and butterflies.

Honey Bees:

Logan's poster on Honey Bees

Bronson's Honey bee poster_1

Bronson's Honey Bee poster_2

Butterflies:

Sarah's Monarch Brochure_1 Sarah's Monarch Brochure_2

Rhema's Monarch poster

Sophia's butterfly poster_1 Sophia's butterfly poster_2

Special thank you to Logan, Bronson, Sarah, Rhema, and Sophia for sharing their informative posters and brochures with us!

You can also download these posters and brochures using these links:

Logan’s Informational Poster on Honey Bees

Bronson’s Informational Poster on Honey Bees

Sarah’s Monarch Butterfly Brochure

Rhema Informational Poster on Monarch Butterflies

Sophia’s Informational Poster on Butterflies

Recycled Life Cycles!

As the weather warms, we start seeing more butterflies fluttering from flower to flower! But where do butterflies come from? A long time ago, people thought butterflies came from soil. Mrs. Kromer’s third grade class knows better than that! To showcase the life cycle of butterflies, our third graders have created diagrams with recycled material found around their house.

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RCAAS_Recycled life cycle 2

Special thank you to William, Vincynt, Logan, and Ross for sharing their beautiful diagrams with us!

Planting pollinator gardens!

Happy Spring and Earth Week to all!

We care a lot about pollinators here at RCAAS! Pollinators are creatures that carry pollen from one flower to another, which allows that flower to develop into a seed. Sometimes those seeds are small, like sunflower seeds, or big, like a watermelon.

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Unfortunately, pollinator populations are declining across the globe. Each year there are fewer butterflies and bees. This is a big problem because we need those insects to grow many different fruits and vegetables! Luckily, Mrs. Kromer’s third grade class is studying these pollinators and discovering ways we can help them!

Today we are sharing Sophia, Ross, and William’s pollinator garden designs! The gardens were designed after researching different native plants to understand how big they will get, how much sunshine they need, how much water they need, and what kind of pollinators they attract.

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These gardens are beautiful! Special thank you to our students who allowed us to share their designs!

William’s Garden Design

Ross’s Garden Design

Sophia’s pollinator garden

Soil Quality Brochures

The quality of our soil is vital for growing and sustaining all of the plants that surround us! The 5th and 6th grade students explore this idea through chemistry each year. To find out more about their research, check out the brochures they’ve made!

Soil Types

Soil

Save the soil

How Does Soil Help our world?

All About Soil

Soil information

The Facts about Soil

These brochures were shared with the public as the 2019 Earth Day Extravaganza at Osborn Park.

Earth Day Extravaganza!

To celebrate Earth Day our 3rd and 4th grade students participated at Earth Day Extravaganza at Osborn Park on April 28th!

Mrs. Kromer’s 3rd grade class has been studying pollinators for months now! They’ve been reading about pollinators online and in books, but have also been involved in conducting citizen science research in our local pollinator garden. The students are passionate about our pollinators and the troubles they face. To share their importance and struggle, our 3rd graders teamed up and designed brochures that they handed out at the Earth Day Extravaganza at Osborn Park. Along side their brochures, the students also prepared sunflower seedlings in egg shells, sunflower and wild flower seed packets, and they helped visitors to our booth create their very own seed bomb that stores a milkweed seed inside.

You can check out the Pollinator Brochures here:

Pollinator Brochure

Pollinaton Brochure

Attracting Pollinators Brochure

Monarch Brochure

Mrs. Foss’ 4th grade class shared information about decomposers, which included live native millipedes and pill bugs to compare to the invasive earth worms! In the classroom we’ve been composting with Red Wigglers, a good decomposer but still an invasive species. The students have also collected citizen science data exploring the non-native worms. To collect this data, first the 4th grade class developed their own dichotomous key to help identify the different earth worms species. We then took our key outside and poured water mixed with powdered mustard on the soil. The mustard irritates the worms skin, driving them to come up to the surface where the students can grab them and identify their species. This data helps scientists to understand the movement of different worms species as they invade our continent.

For more information on our native and non-native decomposers, see these brochures:

Worms Brochures

Millipede Brochure

The 4th grade students also had a number of small herbs to share with our visitors. The students passed out seedlings while informing the visitors about the benefits of using herbs in every day life.

For more information on the benefits of herbs, see the informational cards below: