5. Making Observations of Insects and Flowers!

As first graders dig deeper into understanding the types of problems agricultural engineers face, they're spending time making observations of the many types of insects and plants that exist in the world.  Each insect and plant is very different from one another, and in order for pollination to happen, an insect (or other pollinator) must be matched to the structure of a plant. If an insect is unable to gather nectar from a flower, there's no use in visiting it again.  But once it finds a flower that it can feed from, now that's where lunch is at!!!!