Summary
Explains how bees and other pollinators carry pollen from flower to flower so plants can make seeds and fruit.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Talk about it
Many plants need help to make seeds. Bees and other animals carry pollen between flowers as they feed, and that lets fruit and new plants grow.
- What is pollen, and how does it get from flower to flower?
- How do bees help plants without meaning to?
- What might happen to fruit if there were no pollinators?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: pollen, pollinator, flower, seed.
Try it: Draw a bee visiting two flowers. Show with arrows how pollen moves between them.