Pollination investigation (Years 3–6)

What is pollination and how does it fit into a plant’s lifecycle?

Examine the strategies that Australian plants use to encourage pollination and produce seeds. Discover the pollination syndromes of wind, insect, bird and mammal-pollinated plants. Can you match the pollinator to the flower? 

Investigate the important role of our native pollinator species and how we can help to protect them.

Extend your learning at school or in the Gardens by completing a wild pollinator count.

Australian Curriculum connections

Year 3

• AC9S3U01: Compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals.
• AC9S3U02: Compare the observable properties of soils, rocks and minerals and investigate why they are important Earth resources.

Year 4

• AC9S4U01: Explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships.
• AC9S4U02: Identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation.

Year 5

• AC9S5U01: Examine how particular structural features and behaviours of living things enable their survival in specific habitats.

Year 6

• AC9S6U01: Investigate the physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions.