Class Activity Introduction to Pollination by Jose Lira https://padlet.com/jliralira167/vpmv8trxcj05my3z Pollinators en-us 2020-10-01 04:57:02 UTC 2025-10-22 17:20:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f41d.png Activity Procedure: Part One jliralira167 https://padlet.com/jliralira167/vpmv8trxcj05my3z/wish/804557524
  1. Assign each group a pollinator: bee, bat, bird, butterfly, moth, or fly. They can pick a name out of a hat or you can assign them.
     
  2. Pass out the Pollinator Observation Data Sheets (1 per student). Students should take time to read the descriptions of all the flowers and look at the data before answering the questions. On the back, they will answer the following questions:
    • Who is your pollinator?
    • What number flower did your pollinator visit the most?
    • What are 3 flower traits that you think attract your pollinator?
Let students know that they are beginning to construct explanations about what flower features attract their pollinator.
]]> 2020-10-05 19:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jliralira167/vpmv8trxcj05my3z/wish/804557524 Activity Procedure: Part Two jliralira167 https://padlet.com/jliralira167/vpmv8trxcj05my3z/wish/804560446
  1. Pass out the Constructing Explanations sheets (1 per student) and the Pollinator Profile cards. Each group should get the Pollinator Profile that corresponds to their pollinator.
     
  2. Once students have read their Pollinator Profile, they will write down 3 flower traits that are attractive to their pollinator on the Constructing Explanations sheet.
]]> 2020-10-05 19:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jliralira167/vpmv8trxcj05my3z/wish/804560446 Activity Procedure: Part Three jliralira167 https://padlet.com/jliralira167/vpmv8trxcj05my3z/wish/804562243
  1. Set up your Imaginary Garden. Teacher tip: Set up your garden while students are working on Part Two, or do Parts One and Two before recess, and set up your garden while students are outside. Use a large table or area on the ground so the flowers may be spread out.
     
  2. Have the students come gather around the garden. Tell them that their job is to find one flower that that their pollinator would be most attracted to, based on their observation data and the information in their Pollinator Profile. It is important that they look not only at the flower itself, but the unobservable traits (smell, when it blooms, etc.) on the tag or back of the card. Remind students that in nature, flowers do not have tags explaining when they bloom or what they smell like.
     
  3. Each group should work together to select one flower that their pollinator would be attracted to. Once they have selected their flower, they will take it back to their table.
     
  4. On their Constructing Explanations sheet, they will circle which flower they chose and write one sentence describing why that flower would attract their pollinator.
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