Hands-On Pollination Activities for Elementary Science

I love to plant flowers. I might not be able to keep them alive long, but teaching students about pollination is a fun unit to cover in life science. Here is a collection of pollination activities for kids that will get them excited to be in class! So grab a cup of coffee and a pen, and let’s get started!

Teaching Pollination: Lesson Plans

Before you begin teaching pollination and parts of a flower, look at the standards your grade has to cover. When I write out my lesson plans, I like to give myself a week to cover the topic.

This helps me stay on track so that I can fit in every concept throughout the year. If you’re looking to save some time, my Pollination and Parts of a Flower unit has premade lesson plans already made and ready to go!

Vocabulary Activities

Teaching vocabulary might not be the thing that jumps first to your mind, but it has huge benefits when teaching pollination and parts of a flower to kids.

Some Vocabulary words that I like to cover are: 

• Fertilize
• Pollinator
• Pollen
• Nectar
• Produces
• Pollination
• Disperse
• Life Cycle

Introduce Pollination With Google Slides

To make your lesson more engaging, show students a fun interactive PowerPoint presentation about pollination. I love using Google Slides to introduce a topic because they are easy to use, and you can send them home to parents to help reinforce the topic that your class is learning about.

Simply play the slides on a screen and go over the material together. You can create an anchor chart or write down notes on your whiteboard as you go. Once you are done, have students answer comprehension questions about the topic.

Pollination Drawing Activities

After students have learned about pollination, I love to teach them the steps by having them draw them out. A fun activity is to have the kids pretend that they are a pollinator and draw out the steps it takes for them to pollinate a flower.

Hans-On Pollination Activities: Science Experiments

You may have seen the juice and Cheeto pollination lab before, but if you haven’t, it is a fun and yummy lab students can do to learn about pollination. Each student will need a juice box, some Cheetos, and a cut-out flower. Students will pretend to be a bee or butterfly. Then drink nectar from the flower (juice box with the paper flower attached to it). As they drink from the flower, they also eat Cheetos, making sure to get the cheesy crumbs onto the paper flower. Just the way a bee would spread pollen when it moves from flower to flower.

Here is an example of my lab sheet from my Plants, Pollination, and Parts of a Flower Worksheets and Interactive Notebook unit to give you an idea of what students are supposed to do.

Pollination Activities: Fun Youtube Videos

Pollination can be a little confusing for kids, so I love to throw in some engaging videos when teaching pollination activities for kids. My students loved to watch videos, and sometimes hearing it in another way can help them better understand the content.

Here are some videos that I have used in the past and like!

Grab these Hands-On Pollination Activities for your classroom!

The best part about the low-prep activities and resources that I have shared with you is that you can find all these print-and-go worksheets and digital resources in my TPT Store! Click on the pictures below to find more information on these amazing resources. Take a look at what’s inside!

Parts of a flower and pollination activities for kids is such a fun topic to cover in science. I hope you have found some great hands-on pollination activities that you can use when you start to teach about plants and flowers in your class. Please let me know if you have any questions about any of the resources in this post.

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Happy teaching,

Sarah