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2nd grade · Science · Unit 6 of 7

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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 2.L2U1.9; 2.L2U1.10 · living things need energy, air and water, and life depends on energy from the Sun

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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 6 of 7 in 2nd grade Science, after Fast & Slow Earth Changes and before Weather Hazards & Solutions.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    A squirrel buries acorns and forgets some. What can happen?

    • Nothing ever
    • The acorns melt
    • New oak trees grow
    • Rocks grow

  2. Question 2

    What carries pollen from flower to flower?

    • Rocks
    • Snow
    • Bees
    • Clouds

  3. Question 3

    In a fair test, what should change?

    • Everything
    • Nothing
    • Only one thing
    • Two or three things

  4. Question 4

    Burrs stick to a dog's fur. This helps the plant…

    • make flowers
    • spread its seeds
    • get sunlight
    • drink water

  5. Question 5

    How does wind help some plants?

    • It carries seeds and pollen
    • It makes flowers
    • It digs roots
    • It waters them

  6. Question 6

    A model of a bee's fuzzy body could be made with…

    • a glass marble
    • a pipe cleaner
    • a smooth stone
    • a metal spoon

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