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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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Nature Conservancy

Nature Works Everywhere: Pollinator Garden Tip Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
Certain creatures help pollinate plants. This guide will help gardeners plant good pollinator plants.
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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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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Pollination

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn the parts of a flower and how a plant gets pollinated. Includes video, songs, diagrams, and lesson plans.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Pollination Parties

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson helps students understand the concept of pollination. Objectives, materials, procedures, adaptations, discussion questions, evaluation, extensions, suggested readings, links, vocabulary, and academic standards are all included!
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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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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Bees Help Plants Have Sex

For Students 9th - 10th
Fernanda S. Valdovinos explains how intricate pollination networks work and how it can all change from one season to the next. [5:25]
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Pollinators at Home: Intro to Pollinator Gardening

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to provide native plants that foster the activity of insects and other pollinators.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Flowering Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the parts of a flower and the classification and evolution of flowering plants.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with plants. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Science and Kids Activities: Pollination and Seed Dispersal

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders learn how plants depend on animals to disperse their seeds. Students will learn about ways that animals can disperse seeds. They will design their own model and compare it to the real action of plants and animals. In the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Mendel's Pea Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A breakdown of biologist Gregor Mendel's genetic experiments with pea plants to clarify controlling self and cross pollination.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Plants

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden explores some commonly asked questions about the prairie and prairie plants.
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US Forest Service

Usda: Environmental Benefits of Pollination

For Students 3rd - 8th
In addition to extolling the virtues of flowering plants, this effective site provides several interesting fun facts related to pollination.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Reproduction in Plants

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discusses reproduction in plants either sexual or asexual and describes reproduction parts and pollination.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Plants: Flowers

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a 7-question multiple-choice quiz on the structure and functions of flowers.
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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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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Flowering Plants

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about flowering plants in the science of biology including their life-cycle, structures of a flower, fruit, seeds, and pollination.
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Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: Sexual Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, from retired Harvard professor John W. Kimball, provides a detailed but understandable explanation of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Includes informative, well labelled illustrations.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Some Genes Are Dominant

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the principle of dominance as you watch animations showing Mendel's experiments with pea plants. Find out what happened when he crossed plants that produced green seeds with those that produced yellow seeds.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna From the Beginning: Genetic Inheritance Follows Certain Rules

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what happened when Mendel crossed two hybrid pea plants. The animations do a good job explaining why these crosses produce a 3:1 ratio of traits.
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Science & Plants for Schools

Science & Plants for Schools: Pollination, Fertilization, Fruits [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Great PDF to teach students about plant reproduction and life cycle. There are many teacher printables.
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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Mendel's Pea Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of Mendel's pea plant experiments.

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