Grades 3–5
How Plants Make Food
Fill in six sentences about photosynthesis, then explain what happens to a plant kept in the dark.
Science worksheet · Flowers, seeds and photosynthesis
How a Bee Pollinates a Flower
Number the five steps of pollination in order, then draw a bee carrying pollen.
- Grade level
- Grades 2–4
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Flowers and pollination, Seeds, Photosynthesis
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- Pollination is how pollen gets from one flower to another so the flowers can make seeds.
- Number the steps from 1 to 5.
- Pollen sticks to the bee’s fuzzy body.
- The flower can now make seeds.
- A bee lands on a flower to drink nectar.
- Some pollen rubs off onto the new flower’s pistil.
- The bee flies to another flower of the same kind.
- Draw a bee visiting a flower. Show the pollen on the bee.
Teacher tip
Use cheese puffs as pollen: kids touch two flowers and see the orange dust move.
How to use it
- Take apart a real flower with tweezers.
- Show seeds that fly, stick or float.
- Start with a two-minute “I notice, I wonder” talk about the picture on the sheet.
Watch for
Plants don’t eat soil. They make food from light, air and water.
Talk about it
- Why do flowers need bees?
- What evidence helped you choose your answer?
Take it further
Plant a pollinator garden in a pot by the window.
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