Year Two - Why are bees important? Pollination models

 Prior Knowledge - What do you know about pollination?

Isabelle "if we don't have bees nothing will grow"

Taylor "Bees grow plants and trees and the leaves give us oxygen to breathe"

Kaden "bees are important because when they get nectar from the flowers they make more plants and trees"

Henry "Without bees we would starve"

Evelyn "Without bees we wouldn't have honey"

Year 2 learnt about how bees move pollen from flower to flower while they are drinking nectar.  When the flower has pollen from another flower it can turn into fruit or seeds. Without bees we wouldn't have so many fruits, plants and trees.

We created flower models complete with pollen and sticky stigmas then we acted out  pollination with pipe cleaner bees.

Lastly we feed compost onto the mara kai so we can grow flowers to feed our bees.

Next time we are going to create seed packets for flower seeds to feed the bees.