Summary
Shrunk to bee size, Chris and Martin experience pollination from the inside — traveling flower to flower and discovering how bees, wasps, hummingbirds, and other pollinators carry pollen that flowers need to reproduce. They learn that roughly one in three bites of food humans eat depends on a pollinator.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Pollinators are essential to most of the fruits and vegetables humans eat — and to the seeds that grow into new plants.
- What is pollen, and why do plants need it to reproduce?
- The bee gets nectar from the flower — what does the flower get from the bee? How does that work?
- About one-third of our food comes from plants that need pollinators. Name three foods you eat that might depend on bees or other pollinators.
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: pollen, pollinator, nectar, reproduce, seed.
Try it: Look at a fruit or vegetable you ate this week. Was it made from a flower? Draw the flower and the pollinator that might have visited it, and add an arrow showing which direction the pollen travels.