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Flowers and pollinators activities

April showers bring April flowers and, with the changing of the seasons, it also brings pollinators! Now is a great time to start investigating all things flowers and celebrate the waking of the pollinators. And to get you started teaching about pollinators and flowers, I’ve got an activity idea for each grade K-5 coming at you this month.

In this episode, we’ll talk about flowers and pollinators activities that are paired with Next Generation Science Standards for grades Kindergarten and 3rd grade. I’ll share the standard that inspired the activity, how the activity relates to flowers and pollinators, and descriptions of how to use the activity with your learners.

In this episode, I discuss the following standards connected to flowers and pollinators:

• Kindergarten: K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
• 3rd Grade: 3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Resources:

• Episode 6: 5 Outdoor Education Safety Tips for Teaching Outside
• Episode 63. Frogs Vs Toads And Other Herps in Spring: K-5 NGSS Activities
• Not a Buzz to Be Found: Insects in Winter by Linda Glaser, illustrated by Jaime Zollars
• “Pollination for Plants: How to Use ‘Flowers Are Calling’ for Effective Teaching”
• Naturally Teaching Activity Index

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