Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand that flowers vary in size, colour, shape and form but all play a crucial role in reproduction..
Activities
- Discover the role played by insects in pollination.
- Learn to do a bee Waggle Dance and know this is how they communicate with other bees.
- Create 3D models of either flowers or bees.
- Play a waggle dance game to communicate the location of a target “flower”.
Investigation - analysing secondary sources/observation
Identify male and female parts and learn their function. Make model flowers and insect puppets for the exhibition. Use puppets and models to demonstrate pollination.
Vocabulary
Reproduction, male, female, stigma, style, ovary, carpel, stamens, pollination, fertilisation, waggle dance