Flower Pollination
Grade Levels: 3 - 5
Students discover how flowers get a little help from their friends – birds and insects – to transfer pollen between them to form seeds and produce new plants.
Objectives
- Students will use vocabulary related to plant pollination.
- Students will learn why some plants have flowers.
Materials
- Flower Power activity worksheet.
- Flower Power: http://www.sfscience.com/english/grade_4/unit_A/chap_1/act_2/1.htm
- Why Do Plants Have Flowers?: http://www.cnps.org/kidstuff/pollin.htm
Procedures
- Introduce key vocabulary: fertilize, habitat,
nectar, ovary, pistil, pollen, pollinate, sepal, stamen, stigma.
- Have students visit Flower
Power.
- Point out to students that they will use the information found at Why
Do Plants Have Flowers? to complete the activity worksheet.
- Ask students to draw on the back of the activity sheet a diagram showing
the parts of a flower and write a brief description about each part's job
during pollination.
- Have students work individually or with partners.
- Invite students to share their discoveries and diagrams in a class discussion.
Assessment
Use students' activity worksheets, flower diagrams, and participation in the class discussion to assess their understanding of the topic.
Standards Correlations
National Science Standards
- Students develop understanding that each plant or animal has different structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
- Students develop understanding that plants and animals progress through life cycles of birth, growth and development, reproduction, and death.
- Students develop understanding that many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents of the organism.
National Educational Technology Standards
- Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
- Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.
