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Bees and pollination information pack
- 11-14s, 14+
- Biodiversity
Discover the process by which bees help the pollination of flowers.
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Pollination lesson plan
This lesson covers insect pollination and explores how flowers and insects work together to enable this process. Students will look at the process involving bumblebees, but also factors that can affect insect population and impact this can have on pollination.
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Completing the activities in this lesson plan will help students meet the following objectives / outcomes:
England
KS2
Science Y3:
- Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem, leaves and flowers.
- Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.
Y5:
- Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.
Scotland
Sciences
- I can relate physical and behavioural characteristics of living things to their survival or extinction. SCN 2-01a
- By investigating the lifecycles of plants and animals, I can recognise the different stages of their development. SCN 2-14a
Wales
KS2
Science
- The plants and animals found in local environments.
- The interdependence of living organisms.
Northern Ireland
KS2
The World Around Us
- How living things rely on each other within the natural world.