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2nd grade · Science · Unit 5 of 11

Plants, Seeds & Pollinators

What plants need, and how animals help them.

What your child practices

Practices testing what plants need to grow, and how animals carry pollen and spread seeds.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 2.5; 2.6 · testing one variable at a time on plant growth, and how animals spread seeds and pollen

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Plants need water and light to grow. Without water, leaves wilt.
  2. Bees carry pollen from flower to flower.
  3. Animals spread seeds, like squirrels burying acorns.

Example: A plant gets too little water. What happens to its leaves? Leaves need water to stay firm. They droop. Answer: they wilt

Plants, Seeds & Pollinators in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 5 of 11 in 2nd grade Science, after Objects & Structures and before Plant Experiments.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Pollen helps a flower make…

    • rocks
    • seeds
    • roots
    • sunlight

  2. Question 2

    Two plants: one gets water, one doesn't. Which grows better?

    • The one with no water
    • Neither grows
    • They grow the same
    • The one with water

  3. Question 3

    A plant is kept in a dark closet. What happens?

    • It grows strong and green
    • It turns into a tree
    • It makes fruit faster
    • It grows weak and pale

  4. Question 4

    A plant on a sunny windowsill bends toward…

    • the floor
    • the dark
    • the light
    • the door

  5. Question 5

    A plant gets too little water. Its leaves…

    • turn blue
    • grow bigger
    • wilt
    • get shiny

  6. Question 6

    A seed with a parachute like a dandelion is spread by…

    • wind
    • animals' fur
    • water
    • digging

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