pollination

Although flowers come in all shapes, sizes, colours and scents, most will have the same basic parts to ensure that pollination, fertilisation and seed production take...

Pollinators are insects that visit flowers to drink nectar or feed on pollen. During this process, they get covered in pollen grains and then transport the...

Science is all around us. Take advantage of science learning for early primary students with the following resources. They require very little equipment – most of...

The ‘Buzz of bees’ is a Connected journal devoted entirely to bees. Each article has diagrams and illustrations that offer opportunities for students to develop the...

What is a mast? You might be forgiven for thinking it had more to do with ships than conservation! The term comes from the ancient English...

Flowers are a common sight in most New Zealand school grounds. They offer a colourful starting point to teach about plant reproduction and adaptation and offer...

The value of the horticultural industry will increase with better pollination systems, robust quality control, better traceability systems, more cost-competitive practice and solutions for the difficulty...

In this online PD session recorded on 17 March 2016, Barb Ryan from the Science Learning Hub, explores resources suitable for children working at Levels 1...

This online PD session recorded on 3 June 2015 introduces agriculture and horticulture teachers to resources on the Science Learning Hub that support three particular aspects...

In this activity, students read about pollination using a three-level reading guide and use their ability to locate information to interpret the scientific information. Students apply...

In this activity, students use information to annotate a diagram of pollen processing and use this to justify the management practice of using processed pollen on...

University of Otago geneticist Peter Dearden is using the bee genome to develop a bee-friendly insecticide. Listen to this RNZ audio Bee-friendly insecticides from April 2014....

A plant reproduction resource for NZ Curriculum levels 1 and 2. Explore some of the science ideas behind plant life cycles, seed dispersal and how some...

Flowering plants create seeds, which get spread away from the parents and grow into new plants in new places. Pollination has to happen before seeds can...

What usually happens when you cut up a piece of fruit to eat or to put in a salad? If it is an apple, a pear,...

Plant reproduction is a topic that lends itself to many areas within the junior and middle school curriculum. This teacher resource provides a number of literacy...

In this activity, students learn about seed dispersal by walking through a paddock or area of long grass and plants while wearing woolly socks. By the...

In this activity, students use stick puppets to explain the various methods plants use to disperse their seeds. By the end of this activity, students should...

In this activity, students make small finger puppets and take on the roles of insects, birds and the wind to simulate various methods of pollination. By...

In this activity, students use activity cards to match seeds with the fruits from which they grow. They learn that a seed will produce the same...

In this activity, students relate commonly eaten foods to different parts of the flowering plant life cycle. They use a graphic organiser to identify whether a...

Not every plant grows from a seed. Some plants, like ferns and mosses, grow from spores. Other plants use asexual vegetative reproduction and grow new plants...

Plants make seeds that can grow into new plants, but if the seeds just fall to the ground under the parent plant, they might not get...

Flowering plants need to get pollen from one flower to another, either within a plant for self-pollination or between plants of the same species for cross-pollination...