Pollination
This workshop should take place in the spring, when there are flowering plants. Children use environmental art to represent the different parts of a plant, identify flowering plants, collect data about different plants and pollinators and play a pollination game.
10.00am – 10.30am – welcome / tour / health and safety
10.30am – 11.00am – use environmental art to represent the different parts of a plant
11.00am – 11.30am – Identification of plants / signs of spring / summer at Howsham Mill
11.30am – 12noon – survey (data collection) of different plants and pollinators
12noon – 1.00pm – lunch to include s’mores cooked over the fire
1.00pm – 1.45pm – pollination game / tag
1.45pm – plenary and walk back to bus
Learning objectives:
- identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers (science, Y3, plants)
- explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination (science, Y3, plants)
Contact details : edu.howshammill@gmail.com
