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2nd grade · Science · Unit 9 of 14

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.12(C); 2.13(A) · how plants depend on animals, wind or water for pollination and spreading seeds

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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 9 of 14 in 2nd grade Science, after Signals Far Away and before Animal Adaptations.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

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

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

  2. Question 2

    Hummingbirds drink nectar. They also carry…

    • water
    • rocks
    • pollen
    • soil

  3. Question 3

    In a fair test, what should change?

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

  4. Question 4

    What carries pollen from flower to flower?

    • Bees
    • Snow
    • Clouds
    • Rocks

  5. Question 5

    Which animal is a pollinator?

    • Butterfly
    • Worm
    • Snail
    • Fish

  6. Question 6

    What would happen to apples if there were no bees?

    • More apples would grow
    • Fewer apples would grow
    • Apples would be bigger
    • Nothing would change

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