Sunday, June 8, 2014

Pollination

Our brassica plants are growing so quickly!  We are charting their life cycle and we were all stumped about what happened after they grew flowers.  How do they make seeds?

We did some reading and learned that pollination was necessary for our plants to create seeds.  We don't have (thankfully) any bees or too many insects in our classroom, so we did the next best thing - we did the pollinating ourselves!  We worked in pairs to pollinate our plants using a q-tip.  We then added to our observation papers to keep track of what is happening to our plants.  I wonder how/when seeds will appear on our plants!