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Hummingbird Designs at the Museum Hover Station

Compare hummingbird models at a science museum, use test results, and design a model that shows pollen moving between flowers.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to2-LS2-2

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  • 1 NGSS standard
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  • 14 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 2
Subject
Science
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students connect parts of a hummingbird model to an animal, flowers, and pollen.
  • Students compare test results to judge how well designs model pollen transfer.
  • Students design a model that shows an animal moving pollen between flowers.

How to use

Read the model directions together. Have students compare the results before drawing their own design; washable paint and cardboard can support an optional demonstration.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-LS2-2

Model how animals move seeds around or pollinate plants.

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Hummingbird Designs at the Museum Hover Station

Compare models that move pretend pollen between flowers.

Two Designs to Test

Read about the science museum's model test. Think about what the model needs to show.

The Hummingbird Hover Station

At a science museum, visitors watch a hummingbird video. A bird reaches into flowers for sweet nectar. Pollen touches its head. At another flower, some pollen rubs onto a pollen-receiving part. Moving pollen between flowers can help plants make seeds.

The museum team builds two cardboard bird models. Each has a beak and a sponge pad. Design A has its pad above the beak. Design B has its pad below the beak. The birds and pads are the same size. The team changes the pad's place.

Two cardboard tubes stand for flowers. The first has washable yellow paint on its upper rim. The paint stands for pollen. The second has a clean white patch on its upper rim. This patch stands for a flower's pollen-receiving part.

For each trip, move a model's beak into the first tube up to a marked line. Then do the same at the second tube. Count a trip as successful if yellow paint reaches the white patch. Use fresh paint, a clean sponge, and a clean white patch for each trip.

1.
Match each model part to what it stands for.
  1. Yellow paint
  2. Sponge pad
  3. White patch
  4. Moving the cardboard bird between tubes
  1. A. A flower's pollen-receiving part
  2. B. A bird visiting another flower
  3. C. Pollen
  4. D. The surface of a bird's head
2.
Which result would best show the model doing its job?
  • A. The cardboard bird balances beside the first tube.
  • B. Yellow paint stays on the rim of the first tube.
  • C. The bird's pad carries paint to the second tube's patch.
  • D. The bird's beak reaches the line inside the first tube.

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