In Unit 3, students revisit the module guiding question, "How do we get the fruits, flowers, and vegetables we enjoy?" to apply their understanding of plants and pollinators to their performance task. The performance task includes a board with illustrations and captions showing the pollination process of a specific plant and pollinator as well as a written reflection on how revision helped them. Their informational writing from Unit 2 (about the pollinator they researched in small groups) serves as the main resource of information used to create illustrations and captions about that same pollinator, supplemented by a text focused on specific fruits, flowers, and vegetables.
Students also continue to improve their scientific drawing skills through a series of mini lessons that support them as they create illustrations of their plant and pollinator. The Unit 3 Assessment, focused on speaking and listening, invites students to write and rehearse for the performance task for this module. As a culminating activity, students share their oral presentations and visual displays with an audience during the Celebration of Learning. In this presentation of the module performance task, they invite visitors to discover the "secret" behind the fruits, flowers, and vegetables we enjoy ... pollinators!