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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenge: Build a Blooming Flower

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you create a blooming flower that would attract pollinators? This Curiosity Machine project challenges students to make this flower using common household items. Site includes a place for students to document their process as well as...
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Handout
Nature Conservancy

Nature Works Everywhere: Garden Tip Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Four tip sheets on how to grow a rain garden, a pollinator garden, a native habitat garden, and a school garden. Includes links to lots of resources.
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Website
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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Website
Other

Canada Agriculture Museum: Bees: A Honey of an Idea

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about bees, from different types, pollination to the processes utilized to extract, package, and use honey and its by-products. Includes quick facts, recipes, craft ideas, and printable activities for students.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reclaiming Habitat for Honeybees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the role of pollinators in their ecosystems, develop a written response to one of three questions about the importance of honeybees, gather evidence about Coal Country BeeWorks' efforts to reclaim surface mining sites,.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Floral Arrangements

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore a few of the ways plants pollinate each other in this video segment from Sexual Encounters of a Floral Kind.
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Other

Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science

For Students 9th - 10th
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
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Website
Other

Ecological Society of America: Communicating Ecosystem Services

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A large collection of resources to aid professionals, community members, and educators in communicating the role and importance of ecosystem services. Issues addressed include pollination, marine nurseries, and water purification....
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Curated OER

What Is Pollination?

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website answers the questions: What is pollination? What is a pollinator? What are the benefits?
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Human and the Honeybee

For Students 9th - 10th
Both honeybees and humans originated in East Africa, and the connection between us has survived the ages. Dino Martins encourages us to remember how much we owe to these magnificent insects. [6:25]
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Interactive
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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Interactive
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Connect the Dots With Science

For Students 3rd - 5th
Connect-the-dots science pages providing useful and helpful information regarding pollinators, endangered species, and invasive species. [PDF] Links to other handy tools, including coloring pages, trivia, stories, games and fun projects.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: Plant Reproduction

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at the processes of sexual reproduction in flowering plants, including pollination, fertilization (seed production), seed dispersal, and germination.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Third Grade Science: Life Science: Plant Reproduction and Life Cycles

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Read about the processes of sexual reproduction in flowering plants, including pollination, fertilization (seed production), seed dispersal, and germination.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Jonathan Driori: The Beautiful Tricks of Flowers

For Students 9th - 10th
In this brillant talk, Jonathan Drori shows the amazing ways flowering plants have evolved to attract pollinators and discusses how plants reproduce in a variety of ways. [13:49]
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Lesson Plan
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Africanized Honey Bees on the Move

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a lesson plan for grades 9 - 12. There are worksheets that can be printed out. Each activity and objective is stated.
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eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Flowering Plant Reproduction: Fertilization and Fruits

For Students 9th - 10th
Microscopic images, detailed information, and illustrated diagrams help explain plant reproduction with a focus on fertilization.
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Handout
Other

Florida Gardener: Flower Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the parts of a flower. Do all flowers have the same parts? Do all flowers reproduce in the same manner? Answers to these questions and more are found here, along with many defined terms.
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Handout
Other

Biology: Evolution of Sexual Reproduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This paper, the work of a Ph.D. researcher, presents an interesting discussion of the reasons that assexual reproduction is not used by most organisms. Toward the end is a specific discussion of reproduction in plants. Advantages and...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Bird Ecology

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the diversity of bird habitats and food sources.
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Unit Plan
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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Handout
Texas A&M University

Tamu: Aggie Horticulture: School Gardens

For Students 3rd - 5th
Teachers and students interested in finding information on how to start a garden in their school will find this site very helpful. This site, sponsored by the Department of Horticulture Sciences at Texas A&M University, includes a...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Nova: A Plant With Smarts

For Students 9th - 10th
Not only are orchids tricky when it comes to being pollinated, they also have some tricks that help them survive in a competitive environment. Discover how orchids outwit insects to reproduce and how they have adapted to survive in their...
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Angiosperms

For Students 3rd - 8th
This colorful site focuses specifically on the role of the flower, an explanation of pollination, and the difference between dicots and monocots.

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