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Butterfly Visits Above the City Street

Use balcony flower observations to plan, check, and draw a model of a butterfly moving pollen between plants.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Science
Question types: Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students connect observations of a butterfly's flower visits to pollen movement.
Students choose parts and actions that model an animal moving pollen between flowers.
Students draw and label a model showing how a butterfly can pollinate a plant.

How to use

Read the observations together. Let students move paper model pieces if available, then have them draw and explain their own model.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-LS2-2

Model how animals move seeds around or pollinate plants.

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Butterfly Visits Above the City Street

Use pictures and observations to plan a pollination model.

Look Closely at the Visits

Read the notes. The pictures show the kinds of living things Nia watches, not the tiny pollen grains.

A butterfly: Picture of a butterfly

A rose flower: Picture of a rose

Nia's Balcony Notes

Buses and delivery vans pass below Nia's apartment balcony. On the balcony, two pots hold the same kind of rose plant. Nia names them Plant A and Plant B. She watches a butterfly visit their open flowers.

Pollen is a fine powder made by flowers. Moving pollen to the right part of another flower of the same kind can help that flower make seeds. This movement is called pollination.

Before the butterfly arrives, Nia sees loose yellow pollen in a flower on Plant A. The butterfly lands there. Through a hand lens, Nia sees yellow grains on its body. It flies to Plant B and brushes against the center of a flower. After it leaves, Nia sees some of the yellow grains there. She does not count any seeds.

Which observation best supports the idea that the butterfly carried pollen?