Joke of the Day

Can bees fly in the rain?

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Answer: Not without their little yellow jackets!

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Pollination

What Do We Know About Pollination?

• Pollination makes things grow, animals pollinate
• Makes honey
• Helps the plants make other plants
• The bee collects the pollen and the pollen get stuck on the bee
• Humans can help pollinate
• Some plants are tricky
• The bee has pollen on its head and the bee was in the flower
• The farmers blows pollen to another flower
• The bees collect nectar to make honey
• Pollen is from the flower
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Assessing Prior Knowledge

Pollination Song

(Sung to the tune of Frere Jacques)

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Pollination

Pollination

How does it occur?

How does it occur?

The stamens make the pollen that

Sticks to the stigma and

Travels down the pistil

Into the ovules

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Stamen

Song to build

Academic Vocabulary

How does it travel?

How does it travel?

The birds and the bees

The windy, windy breeze.

They carry the pollen from

Flower to flower

Making new seeds

Making new seeds

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Input Chart on the Parts of a Flower

Petals

Nectary

Produces Nectar (the sugary substance that insects feed on)

Stamen/Anther

Produces pollen

Stigma

Sticky so pollen attaches to it

Pistil

Ovule

Later will develop into seeds

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Ovary

Later will develop into fruit

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Bee

Pollination

Wind

Pollination

Both fertilize seeds

Both spread pollen

Both create new plants

Large, colorful petals

No nectar

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Small or no petals

Have tasty nectar

Spikey

pollen

Large amounts, light grains

Double Bubble Mind Map: Comparing and Contrasting Bee and Wind Pollination

I see the beautiful petals and I smell the fragrance of the flower.

I will land on the flower to eat the nectar. Pollen gets stuck to me!

I fly to the next flower and land on the stigma. The pollen sticks to the new flower.

Last, I fly back to my hive to share my pollen and nectar.