What students investigate

Students see a bee pick up pollen during a visit, learn that pollen clings to tiny hairs on its body, and find out that pollination happens when pollen reaches the part of a flower that catches it. They learn that moving pollen and seed travel are different events.

Then seeds travel: hooks catch animal fur and carry burrs to new places, and fruit-eating birds carry whole seeds. The last cards look at models: a useful pollination model shows pickup and delivery, a hook-and-loop model shows how burrs attach and come off, and every model has limits.

Who it is for

Pollinators & Seeds is written for Grade 2 life science and leads well into a hands-on model, such as a pipe-cleaner bee or a hook-and-loop burr. Students can judge their own model with the same questions the cards ask.

It pairs with What Plants Need and Compare Habitats.

What students learn

10 learning ideas, one at a time. Each one is a silent animated Learn card, then Review and Mastery questions.

1. A bee may pick up flower pollen during a visit.
2. Pollen can cling to tiny hairs on a bee.
3. Pollination occurs when pollen reaches a receiving flower part.
4. Pollen moving and seed travel are different events.
5. Hooks can catch animal fur and carry seed-bearing burrs.
6. A burr can move on fur and fall off elsewhere.
7. Some fruit-eating birds can carry whole seeds to new places.
8. A useful pollination model must show pickup and delivery.
9. A hook-and-loop model can show how burrs attach and release.
10. A model has limits and may be improved.

Science words in this pack

Each word is taught on its Learn card, then used again in Review and Mastery.

• pollen
• pollination
• pollen-catching part
• body hairs
• seed
• seed travel
• burr
• hook
• fur
• fruit
• model
• model pollen
• model hook
• model fur
• model limit

Inside the pack

How it works in class

• Learn. 10 silent whiteboard animations, one idea per card. No audio, so it works on a classroom screen or a quiet device.
• Review. 30 practice questions with feedback. Ideas a student misses come back.
• Mastery. 30 questions to show what each student knows on their own.
• Certificate. A student who finishes can print a certificate or save it as a PDF. It shows first-try Review and Mastery results and the ideas that needed a retry.

Standards connections

These cards support parts of the following NGSS performance expectations. They do not replace hands-on investigations.

• 2-LS2-2 — core ideas

More in Science in Motion — Grade 2

• Materials Detectives: Observe, Test & Sort Look closely. Test properties. Sort what you find.
• Choosing Materials Pick the best material for a job by testing its properties.
• Build With Pieces See how a set of small pieces can be built into many new objects.
• Heating & Cooling Find out which changes from heating or cooling can be undone.
• Compare Habitats Compare the plants and animals that live in different places.
• Shaping the Land Explore hills, valleys and rivers, and how wind and water change land.
• What Plants Need Test what plants need to grow: light and water.
• Maps Around Us Use simple maps to show the shapes of land and water.
• Finding Water Find where water is on Earth, as solid ice or liquid water.
• The Water Cycle Follow water as it moves between sky, land, and water.

About the Science in Motion — Grade 2 series