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Description
- Overview:
- This site helps students see how plants and animals interact to accomplish pollination. Students (Grades 3-8) identify plant and animal parts involved in pollination, connections between pollination and food production, relationships between pollinators and the plants they pollinate, and ways flowers have adapted to encourage pollination.
- Subject:
- Education, Biology, Botany
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- Smithsonian Institution
- Provider Set:
- Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
- Date Added:
- 09/10/2004
- License:
- http://www.si.edu/copyright/
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML
This resource is a multi-lesson unit that is well aligned ( Rating: 3) to the following Hawaii Content and Performance Standards III benchmarks:
* SC 3.3.1: How plants depend on animals
* SC 3.4.1: Compare distinct structures of living things that help them to survive
* SC 3.5.1: Describe the relationship between structure and function in organisms
What follows is a summary of the strengths and limitations of each of the resources, along with recommendations to enhance this unit:
* The Introduction provides a great informational resource for teachers but is written at a level that is too difficult for 3rd grade students.
* Lesson 1 is a great activity that reinforces student's understanding of structural parts, the roles of each pollinator partner, and how each benefit from the pollination process. It is recommended that many examples of pollinating partners be provided to the students.
* Lesson 2 uses a real world context that is relevant to students, and clarifies the consequences that may occur if we cannot solve the crisis the bees are facing with the Varroa Mite or if any pollinator were to become extinct
* The line drawing in Activity Page 3A of Lesson 3 be replaced with a photo illustration. Steps 4 and 5, while fun for the students, can be accomplished by Step 6. As a suggestion, give each student pair a picture of a pollinator and have them "engineer" a flower that would attract their pollinator. Have the student pairs share their creations and what adaptations the included to ensure their pollinator would return again and again.
* In the Electronic Resources "Pollination: The Art and Science of Floral Sexuality" cannot be found. "What is Pollination? A Sticky Question" Is for purchase only. However, follow the following sequence to access the a very good resource: Quick Links for Students and Teachers (right side of page)>>>Online Educational Resources>>>Biology of Plants>>>Pollination
mbgnet.net/bioplants/pollination.html
For an excellent source of pollinator examples, go to: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/pollinators/moffett-photography
Finally, as an extension you may want your students to learn more about pollinators and partners in Hawaii. The following resources may be helpful to you:
* http://www.fws.gov/pollinators/pdfs/HawaiianIsland.EcoRegGuide.FINAL.hi-res.pdf