How Does My Garden Grow?
A Closer Look at Pollination
Duration:
2 hour periods
Objectives:
w The student uses technology resources to find information.
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The student knows the structural characteristics of a flower and how it
reproduces.
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The student understands that plants and animals depend upon each
other for
survival.
Materials:
Various flowers, books
Vocabulary:
Pollen, anther, ovules, petals, stigma, pistil, stamen, pollen basket,
pollinate
Online Glossaries: Sue
Bee Glossary and
Honey Facts
Activities:
1. Discuss how a bee not only produces honey
from the nectar of a
flower but at the same time the bee is helping the flower to
reproduce or make more
flowers. Provide students with flowers so
that they can
identify the different parts of a flower as they do their
investigation.
2. Do research on what is pollination. Visit this site and see a movie
on
pollination. Visit Brain
Pop Pollination and read
about pollination at Honey
General Info and
Cyber Bee
3. Learn more about flowers and pollination
from Scott Foresman
Science online: Plant
Structure and Function Read about flowers
then click on "flower power"
and print the worksheet. Then go Kids
Stuff Pollen to answer the questions on the worksheet.
4. After reading about pollination and studying the parts of a flower
students
will visit this site and copy the outline of the flower. Find
the answers to the questions and
label the flower. Honey- Pollen
Assessment:
w
Student will present the outline of a flower labeled with its parts and
functions.
w Student will present the flower power puzzle on pollination.
Home Learning:
Visit your backyard and see any flowers growing. Get one and see if you can identify the flower's parts. Write about your adventure looking for the flower. Watch out for bees!
Extension:
Go to the Scott Foresman Science site and copy the writing prompt.
When the story is ready to be published go back to S F Science site and enter your story. Visit SFS Science.
PROMPT: You can adapt the prompt to the lesson by changing fern to flower:
"Munch! Imagine being a gigantic fern with dinosaurs nibbling on your long, rough, leaves, spores dropping to the soil below. Or maybe you are trampled into the mud to become a fossil, or used in a nest to cushion eggs. "
So much could happen to a fern! Write a short story about a giant fern that might have grown in an ancient forest during the time of the dinosaurs. What did it look like? Where did it grow? What type of weather was good for it? Was anybody eating it? Write about the ups and downs of life as a fern in the wild world of dinosaurs.