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Hi! I recently designed an adaptation of the Flower Hunt activity from Bria Marty, Kristy Daniel, and Michelle Forsythe's Bee Time article. This activity is designed to take place at an outside garden or 'wild space' near a school, but I was unable to do so because of the lack of vegatation surrounding this inner-city school. I modified the activty by choosing pictures of flowers that bees typically pollinate and some that they do/can not pollinate and printing them out. Next, I laminated the pictures and hot glued them to popsicle sticks to be stuck into the ground. I repeated this with pictures of bees as well. This provides an opportunity for students to conduct the hunt and model the pollination process to meet NGSS's 2-LS2-2 standard, even with no access to real flowers!
Unfortunately, I was not able to take my group of students outside because of weather; however, I placed the 'flowers' around the classroom, gave students their bee manipulatives (on popsicle sticks), and allowed them to 'fly' around the room to the different flowers. My students had a graphic organizer that they used to record which flowers the 'bees' would pollinate using the pollinator cards included in the article. By modeling the process of pollination with the manipulatives, my students were able to draw their own model of the process following the lesson which I used as a formative assessment.
If you have access to a real garden, this would be ideal for the activity so students can really see the real-world connection!
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