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Students design their own flower and decide how it will be pollinated, reinforcing both sexual reproduction and the specialized structures that increase the probability of reproduction. Students love this activity because it gives them the freedom to pick a pollinator of their choice and imagine their own flower.
In this activity, students will:
- Pick a pollinator from a provided list.
- Use information about their pollinator to design a pollination strategy.
- Design a flower based on their pollination strategy.
- Write about their plant’s reproduction.
Teacher Note:
Related Standards:
- NGSS MS-LS1-4: Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction.
- NGSS MS-LS3-2: Develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.
