Who are the pollinators?
A pollinator is anything that helps carry flower pollen to the pistil. These include bees, wasps, moths, wind, birds, butterflies, bats, and flies. (The volunteer/teacher can show pictures of the pollinators from the book The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller.) Flowers can advertise for pollinators with their fragrances, markings on petals, colors, nectar, and even landing platforms (e.g., iris flower). Poem of the Week: Honeybees by Paul Fleischman (Microsoft Word document) Dissecting Flower Parts and Learning the Art of Flower Arranging Group Activity Suggest that the older volunteers bring in flowers from their gardens and in small groups help students with flower dissection and arrangement. A volunteer/teacher will explain the art of flower arranging according to the Japanese tradition called Ikebana. In this arrangement there are three heights of flowers, leaves, and/or sticks. From tallest to shortest, they symbolize Heaven, Man, and Earth. It is a suggestion students might want
