Bees and Flowers
- Biology
- Ages 6–8 · Grades 1–2
What you’ll find out
- Bees visit flowers to collect nectar and pollen as food.
- Pollen sticks to a bee and rubs off on the next flower.
- Moving pollen helps flowers make seeds, so bees and flowers depend on each other.
No sign-up and no real names. In the lesson you check your understanding as you read, and practise until it sticks.
Flowers feed the bees
Bees visit flowers to find food. Deep inside a flower is a sweet juice called nectar, which bees drink and turn into honey. Flowers also have a fine yellow dust called pollen, and bees eat that too.
Bees help flowers too
When a bee visits a flower, pollen sticks to its fuzzy body. The bee flies to the next flower, and some pollen rubs off there. That helps the flower make seeds, so new plants can grow. Bees and flowers help each other.
Curriculum links: NGSS 2-LS2-2 · England KS2: Plants · Cambridge Primary Stages 2–3: Biology