Year 2 Bees and Pollination

 Prior Knowledge - Why are bees so important?

Felix R "They pollinate flowers to turn them into fruit"

Liam "Seeds are inside the fruit"

Peter “They make honey”

Luke “They make fruit. They pollinate.”

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.

We explored the school flowers to see if we could find the sticky stigmas and pollen anthers. 

Next time we’re going to make seed packets to grow our own flowers.