Summary
A sunflower is really hundreds of tiny flowers, each offering pollen and nectar to visiting bees. Deep Look shows how the flower and the bees help each other — the bee gets food, the flower gets pollinated.
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Discussion questions
Talk about it
Bees visit sunflowers for food and carry pollen from flower to flower as they go. That pollination lets the plant make seeds — a partnership that helps both.
- What does a bee get from a sunflower, and what does the sunflower get from the bee?
- How does pollen travel from one flower to another?
- Why do plants and pollinators need each other?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: pollen, pollinate, nectar, seed.
Try it: Dab flour on a cotton swab and touch it to two paper flowers. Write how a bee moves pollen the same way.