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The following reading collections are free with registration at Readworks.
This collection of readings is all about insects and other animals that pollinate plants! Review the process of pollination and discover even more about pollinators! (Grade 2)
This collection of readings is all about the interactions between organisms and their environments. Students will explore what an ecologist is and review the relationships between bees and flowering plants! (Grade 3)
Both reading sets also include challenge articles to help differentiate for your students.
If your students would like to continue playing the game from this lesson, we have created an additional set of Plant Cards. Print out one set of additional cards for each pair of students. Then, cut out the cards and shuffle them into the deck. The rules and pollinators will all remain the same as the original game.
This activity from Smithsonian Education invites students to consider the adaptations flowers have developed that support pollination. Students match a particular flower’s adaptations with a particular pollinator. They also consider their own personal preferences (e.g. favorite colors and scents) and imagine what kind of flower they would want to pollinate.
In this lesson, students focused on how plant life cycles depend on pollinators, but is it also the other way around? Do pollinator life cycles depend on plants? The Mystery Science Mini-Lesson “How do bees make honey?” extends the concept that the life cycles of plants and the life cycles of pollinators are intricately connected.
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