Pollination

The photos on this site and the accompanying narratives could be used in a variety of ways in a classroom. Here are just a few ideas:

• Have students generate captions for the photos that engage their creativity and show what they understand about the process of seed formation.
• Take students outside in the schoolyard or bring flowers from a garden or a store into the classroom and ask them to identify the parts of real flowers as they look at the photos and narratives. Invite students to compare/contrast different flowers so they can appreciate the diversity of forms, while also recognizing the common functions of flower parts.
• Provide modeling clay and ask students to create a 3D model of a flower, labeling key parts of the flower identified in the narrative.
• Print the photos and their accompanying narratives, then separate them from each other and ask students to match each narrative with the correct photo.
• Invite students to reproduce the photos in graphic novel form, telling the story of a flower and including drawings to depict the process by which a flowering plant reproduces.