Summary
“The World's Smelliest Flower” is a short SciShow Kids science video for the K–5 classroom. It shows how animals like pollinators help plants grow and spread seeds. Quick to drop into a science lesson, a center, or a few spare minutes before the bell.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
This video explains how animals and plants help each other, like pollinators and flowers.
- How do the animal and the plant in this video help each other?
- Why do plants need animals like bees?
- What might happen to the plants if the pollinators disappeared?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: pollinator, flower, seed, pollen.
Try it: Draw a flower and an animal that visits it, and show how they help each other.