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This resource is a part of the Climate Science and Pollinators Traveling Trunk

Every Party Has a Pollinator!

Overview

Students will work individually to plan a party with and without pollinators by creating and comparing two shopping lists. Students will get together as a class to sort real food items based on whether they benefit from pollinators or do not.

Activity Type:

Lesson

Target Grade Level:

K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Estimated Duration:

25 minutes

Topics:

Pollinators

Possible Connections to NGSS

Performance Expectations

K-LS1-1: Use observations to describe patterns of what plants, animals and humans need to survive.

2-LS4-1: Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.

3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environmental changes and types of plants and animals that live there may change.

5-ESS3-1: Combine and obtain information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect Earth’s resources and environment.


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