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Plants and Pollinators Why do plants and pollinators need each other?
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Before you start… What do you know about pollinators and plants?
Why do plants make seeds? _____________________________________________________________
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Why do plants have pollen? _____________________________________________________________
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What is a pollinator? _____________________________________________________________
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Draw and label a flower _____________________________________________________________
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How many types of bees are there in New Mexico? _____________________________________________________________
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What are two things you can do to help pollinators in your yard? 1.___________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________
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Plants
Introduction to Plants
Plants are all around us. Some plants are small.
Some plants are large. We use plants in many ways.
Plants make the oxygen we breathe. Plants also make
the food that people eat. Plants are important to people
and to animals. What are three foods that plants make?
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Where do plants come from?
Plants grow and change over time. Many plants start as small seeds.
They then grow larger. The large tree in the picture above is called a
sequoia. They can grow to be almost 300 feet tall. If a second grader is
about three feet tall, the sequoia is as tall as __________ second graders.
The seed of the sequoia is only this big. Even tiny seeds can grow large
plants. Sometimes large seeds grow small plants.
What do seeds and plants need to grow?
Seeds and plants need help to grow from the world around them. Seeds
will not grow unless they have the right conditions. Conditions include
sunlight, water, and soil. Different plants and seeds need different amounts
of sunlight and water. For example, __________________ need a lot of
water. ___________________ do not need very much water to grow.
Extension: How could you test what conditions different seeds need to grow?
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What is in a seed?
How can you learn what is in a seed?
To learn what is in a seed I will ____________________________________
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This is what I see on the outside of a seed.
The seed is _______________inches long and ________________cm long.
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This is what I see inside a seed.
Seed Anatomy
These are drawings of the parts of the seed I dissected. Seed Coat
Cotyledon
Embryo
Unidentified
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Plant Germination and Lifecycle Draw each stage of plant development
A seed is planted and watered.
The seed grows its first root. The
radicle becomes the root.
The root grows. The epicotyl
pushes above the ground. The first
leaves grow.
The plant grows flowers. The flowers are pollinated.
The pollinated flower develops new seeds. The seeds
ripen.
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Relationships between Organisms
Living things, or organisms, often
need each other to survive.
Sometimes plants or animals help
each other. Sometimes they hurt
each other. These are some
examples of different relationships
that organisms have.
Predator-Prey In your classroom…
In the wild…
Human-Chicken Coyote-Rabbit
Yum! This chicken sandwich is good!
A coyote eats a rabbit.
Mutualism In your classroom…
In the wild…
Human-Human Flower-Bee
Parasitism In your classroom…
In the wild…
Human-Human Juniper-Mistletoe
Competition
In your classroom…
In the wild…
Human-Human Elk-Elk
Commensalism In your classroom…
In the wild…
Human-Human Tree-Bird
This bird lives in an old knot in a tree. The bird gets a home and the tree is not hurt.
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Learning at the Botanical Garden Specialized Flowers and Pollinators
Help us! We need scientists to do research on our pollinators and flowers. There are many different shapes of flowers in the Botanical Garden. We want to learn which pollinators visit which flowers. You will then enter the data you collect on our website. This will help us learn about what pollinators prefer each variety of flower. I studied the flower of the _____________________________.
(Name of Plant) The time is:__________ The weather is:_________________________________________________ Use tally marks to keep track of how many pollinators visit your flower.
Bee Butterfly Moth Ant Fly Humming-bird
Other _______
Total:___
Total:___
Total:___
Total:___
Total:___
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Which pollinator visited your flower the most?___________________ Why do you think that happened? Look at the shape of the insect and the shape of the flower. _____________________________________________________________
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What else should we study about these flowers and pollinators? _____________________________________________________________
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Learning at the Botanical Garden
How Seeds Travel
Draw and label your three seeds
How do you think each seed travels?
What tests did you do to prove that is true?
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3. 3.
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Learning at the Botanical Garden Bees
Did you know…
• There are over 1,100 different varieties of bees in New Mexico.
• Many native bees live alone, not in hives.
• Honeybees are from Europe.
• Some bees live in wood and dead trees.
• Other bees live in holes in the ground.
Draw your bee habitat.
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Flower Anatomy
Word Bank: Petals – Surround seed making organs, often work as an advertisement for
pollinators Sepals – Leaf-like structures below petals
Nectary – Where nectar is made and stored
Stigma – Sticky organ that receives pollen
Style – Tube that connects stigma and ovary
Stamen – Anther and filament
Anther – Pollen covered part of stamen
Filament – Holds up the anther
Ovary – Where ovum and pollen meet to make a seed
Stalk – Attaches flower to plant
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Take what you learned and… Dissect a Flower
This is what the flower looks like on the outside.
When the flower is cut in half it looks like this.
These are all of the parts of the flower, after I took it apart. Each part is labeled with its name.
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Take what you learned and… Invent a Pollinator and Flower
Now you know what a pollinator does and the parts of a flower. Can you design a specialist pollinator and flower, which evolved together. The name of my pollinator is ______________________________________
The name of my flower is _________________________________________
The way the flower helps the pollinator is ____________________________
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The way the pollinator helps the flower is ____________________________
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You should also know____________________________________________
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This is a picture of my flower with all its parts labeled.
Word Bank
Pistil Pollen Stamen Sepal Petal Ovary Stalk
This is a picture of my pollinator.
This is a picture of the pollinator pollinating the flower
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What do you know about pollinators and plants now?
Why do plants make seeds? _____________________________________________________________
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Why do plants have pollen? _____________________________________________________________
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What is a pollinator? _____________________________________________________________
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Draw and label a flower _____________________________________________________________
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How many types of bees are there in New Mexico? _____________________________________________________________
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What are two things you can do to help pollinators in your yard? 1.___________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________
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Glossary
Commensalism_________________________________________________
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Competition____________________________________________________
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Conditions_____________________________________________________
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Epicotyl_______________________________________________________
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Mutualism_____________________________________________________
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Ovary_________________________________________________________
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Oxygen_______________________________________________________
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Parasitism_____________________________________________________
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Petal_________________________________________________________
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Pistil__________________________________________________________
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Pollen________________________________________________________
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Pollinator______________________________________________________
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Predator______________________________________________________
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Prey__________________________________________________________
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Radicle_______________________________________________________
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Sepal_________________________________________________________
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Sequoia_______________________________________________________
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Stalk_________________________________________________________
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Stamen_______________________________________________________
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