Overview
NGSS Alignment
2-LS2-2: Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.

Learning Targets
  • Build a model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
  • Discover how flowers depend on pollinators to make seeds

​Pollen Painting Activities
  • Watch a video and learn about pollen and how pollinators are used to make seeds.
  • Complete a vocabulary worksheet.
  • Craft a model bee that will be used like a paint brush to spread color from Kool-Aid powder onto a provided painting handout. The Kool-Aid powder will act like pollen so the students can see how bees and other pollinators transfer pollen from different flowers to make seeds.
Scheduling Information
The Pollen Painting field trip is led by the NKY Makerspace student interns.  The cost of this Remote Field Trip is $15 per classroom.  Materials for the field trip are individually packed for each student.  The only things we ask teachers to provide is scissors and 2 tablespoons of water for each student.  This field trip can be done with students virtually from their homes or can be done in the classroom with the NKY Makerspace instructor joining the classroom via a virtual platform.  Remote Field Trip experiences are only available to educators in the NKY/Cincinnati region.

Have questions?  Please email maggie.crum@boone.kyschools.us.

To schedule a remote field trip for your class, please click on the button below.
Materials
Activity Kit Materials
  • 4 - Cupcake Liners
  • 4 - Cotton Rounds
  • 1 - Wooden Craft Stick
  • 1 - Cotton Ball
  • 1 - Black Pipe Cleaner (Chenille Stem)
  • 1 - Yellow Pipe Cleaner (Chenille Stem)
  • 1 - Plastic Spoon
  • 3 - Small Resealable Plastic Bags
  • 1 tsp. - Grape Kool-Aid
  • 1 tsp. - Orange Kool-Aid
  • 1 tsp. - Red Kool-Aid
  • 1 - Pollination Vocabulary Worksheet
  • 1 - Pollen Painting Activity Page
  • 1 - Gallon-Sized Plastic Bag

Materials Not Included in Activity Kits
  • Scissors
  • Approximately 2 Tablespoons of Water
Read-Aloud Book
The NKY Makerspace Interns created a video of a read-aloud book to go along with the Pollen Painting Remote Field Trip.
Book Details:
What is Pollination?
​By: Bobbie Kalman
Instructional Assets
pollination_vocabulary_worksheet.pdf
File Size: 160 kb
File Type: pdf
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This vocabulary worksheet goes with the Homeschool Pop video below.
pollen_painting_activity_page.pdf
File Size: 156 kb
File Type: pdf
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PowerPoint Presentation
presentation_2nd_grade_pollen_painting.pdf
File Size: 6787 kb
File Type: pdf
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