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Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants, and You [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers will love this comprehensive Grades 3-6 curriculum on pollinators. There are six modules of detailed plans and accompanying materials. Pre-assessment activities and teacher background information, as well as supplemental...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Smithsonian Education presents a series of three lesson plans whose focus is plants and animals in their role as partners in pollination. Each lesson comes complete with clear learning objectives, materials list, subjects covered,...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Hidden Beauty of Pollination

For Students 9th - 10th
Pollination is a vital to life on Earth but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film "Wings of Life," inspired by...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 4th - 9th
A lesson unit on pollination. Includes background information, lessons and activity pages. One handout is in Spanish.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Here is a three-part lesson plan on the plant and animal relationship in respect to pollination.
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National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Pollination Story

For Students 3rd - 8th
A colorful, interactive chart illustrating the stages in the pollination of flowers by bees.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bees Are Master Pollinators

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The study of biomimicry and sustainable design promises great benefits in design application. It affords means by which to promote cost-effective, resourceful, non-polluting avenues for new enterprise. These "blueprints" have existed...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Pollination of Flowers

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses what pollination is, the types, what happens during pollination, its importance in agriculture and horticulture, and the biotic and abiotic factors that facilitate pollination. Has some embedded ads.
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US Forest Service

Usda Forest Service: Wind and Water Pollination

For Students 3rd - 8th
This brief site delves into the traits of flowers that are typically pollinated by wind and water.
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Scientific American

Scientific American: The Buzz on Bees: In Depth Reports

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this multimedia article about the disappearance of bee colonies worldwide. Find out why it is crucial to saving this important pollinator from extinction.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pollination

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain the relationship between a bee and a flower.
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Unusual Pollination: Bee Orchid

For Students 9th - 10th
Some flowers have developed adaptations that lure insects to them for pollination. Visit this website to learn about the very unusual adaptations of the bee orchid.
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National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Buzz About Native Bees

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resources for learning about the important role bees play in pollinating plants, especially those we eat. Includes a student magazine full of information about bees, an interactive pollination chart, and a quiz.
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Canada Agriculture Museum: Bees: A Honey of an Idea

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about bees, from different types, pollination to the processes utilized to extract, package, and use honey and its by-products. Includes quick facts, recipes, craft ideas, and printable activities for students.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reclaiming Habitat for Honeybees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the role of pollinators in their ecosystems, develop a written response to one of three questions about the importance of honeybees, gather evidence about Coal Country BeeWorks' efforts to reclaim surface mining sites,.
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Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science

For Students 9th - 10th
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
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Curated OER

What Is Pollination?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website answers the questions: What is pollination? What is a pollinator? What are the benefits?
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Human and the Honeybee

For Students 9th - 10th
Both honeybees and humans originated in East Africa, and the connection between us has survived the ages. Dino Martins encourages us to remember how much we owe to these magnificent insects. [6:25]
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Starfall

Starfall: All About Seeds

For Students 1st - 4th
This lesson focuses on seeds and the plants they grow into. It includes kinds and sizes of seeds, pollination of plants, plant parts, how seeds travel, and what plants need to grow.
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US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Connect the Dots With Science

For Students 3rd - 5th
Connect-the-dots science pages providing useful and helpful information regarding pollinators, endangered species, and invasive species. [PDF] Links to other handy tools, including coloring pages, trivia, stories, games and fun projects.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Jonathan Driori: The Beautiful Tricks of Flowers

For Students 9th - 10th
In this brillant talk, Jonathan Drori shows the amazing ways flowering plants have evolved to attract pollinators and discusses how plants reproduce in a variety of ways. [13:49]
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Florida Gardener: Flower Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the parts of a flower. Do all flowers have the same parts? Do all flowers reproduce in the same manner? Answers to these questions and more are found here, along with many defined terms.
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Biology: Evolution of Sexual Reproduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This paper, the work of a Ph.D. researcher, presents an interesting discussion of the reasons that assexual reproduction is not used by most organisms. Toward the end is a specific discussion of reproduction in plants. Advantages and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Bird Ecology

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the diversity of bird habitats and food sources.

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