Flowers and Their Pollinators: A Perfect Match!

Mister Brown and Squeaks take a look at some flowers and their pollinators, and learn about special structures that help them work together perfectly! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow If you have a question for Jessi, Squeaks, and Mister Brown you can write to them here: https://forms.gle/SENBjH9szoLGfrRC9 ---------- Performance Expectation: 1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured determines many of its properties and functions. Disciplinary Core Idea: LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems - Plants depend on animals for pollination or to move their seeds around (2-LS2-2). Performance Expectation: 2-LS2-2 Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants. ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishowkids Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishowkids Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow SOURCES: https://www.houstonzoo.org/blog/unusual-pollinators-plants-love/ https://www.batcon.org/article/a-new-world-record/ https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/unusual.shtml https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/birds.shtml#:~:text=Birds%20are%20very%20important%20pollinators,(Australia)%20are%20important%20pollinators. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/21/bat-with-record-breaking-tongue-found-in-the-bolivian-jungle/ https://collection.ento.vt.edu/2016/08/05/milkweed-pollinia-revisited/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040413/ https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/tube-lippednectarbat/ https://www.audubon.org/news/hummingbird-pollination-practice https://www.batcon.org/article/going-to-great-lengths/ https://cotram.org/taxa/index.php?taxon=20284&taxauthid=1 http://www.umsl.edu/~muchhalan/research.html https://www.wnps.org/blog/coevolution-and-pollination https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingHummingbirdsFS-1046April2015.pdf http://blog.umd.edu/agronomynews/2020/08/04/hummingbirds-and-bird-pollination/ Image Sources: Special Thanks to Nathan Muchhala https://www.flickr.com/photos/benweinstein/16439366578/in/photolist-MyEtSa-4Qc2yJ-Myuiqt-ffbUnL-2iXWTx4-9B8Muy-2aTe6eo-Ne1mBx-MtcCjQ-ffbTKf-6ohz2R-nvGGJT-nvGPLi-r3G3WN-7TFXZG-oKiXzH-jbffgQ-rhWhLC-r1UUtR-nqMc66-feWCtp-aYU1cZ-jbcid4-7yyWEh-4uKAKz-ojMtQ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lonicera_sempervirens_2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruby-throated_Hummingbird_(Archilochus_colubris)_RWD4.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lonicera_sempervirens_NRCS-002.jpg https://www.nature.com/articles/444701a #scishowkids #flower #animals #butterfly #insect #pollination #spring #education #science #elementary #learning #fun #scienceforkids