Class LH have been learning about the importance of pollination by bumble bees in and around the flower meadows. We understand the vital role that they play and we learnt how how the pollen travelled from flower to flower by bees
By using a velcro cap and balls (although, due to restrictions, we couldn't wear the cap on our heads, so we carried it instead!) we went out onto the playground to create a flower meadow where by all the children were flowers but some children were specific flowers, which the bee then pollinated. One of the boys commented about the fact there were no weeds in the garden!
The bumble bees travelled around all the flowers picking up the pollen (above) before finally landing on a tall sunflower plant and was able to pollinate the pollen she had collected from the other plants (below)
We repeated the pollination process to show the number of bees travelling around a variety of plants, picking up the pollen and leaving it on another plant.
