Module 1

Optional/Alternate Activities

These fruits all depend on pollinators.
Photo by Suzanne DeJohn/NGA.

1. As a group, visit a supermarket and identify foods that depend on pollination for production.
   
2. Accompany a parent to the grocery store and/or make a list of all the foods your family buys on the next trip to the grocery store that depend on pollination.
   
3. Do a survey of plants in the neighborhood that have flowers sometime during the year.
   
4. Make a list of the plants and find out when they usually flower.
   
5. Design a "comic strip" showing the process of pollination.
   
6. Visit various Internet sites that have information about pollinators. The list below is just a sampling.

Coevolution Institute http://www.coevolution.org

National Gardening Association's Kids Gardening Web site http://www.kidsgardening.com

Butterfly World http://www.butterflyworld.com

The Science Spot http://www.sciencespot.net

Xerces Society http://www.xerces.org

Monarch Watch http://www.monarchwatch.org

The Insects Homepage http://www.earthlife.net/insects/six.html

Alien Empire http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire

Enature http://enature.com

Ecology Society of America http://www.esa.org

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