Pollen | NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book

Charles Darwin Predicted it; 130 Years Later, Lutz Wasserthal Proved It! Junior Library Guild selection Starred Kirkus Review 2020 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book Eureka! NonFiction Honor Book (California Reading Assn.) “POLLEN is extraordinary! What a great story that encapsulates so many important concepts in science - pollination, structure and function of living things, and how scientific discoveries take time. It is so well written and will make a wonderful read-aloud.” Emily Morgan, co-author of Picture Perfect Science Elementary Science – POLLEN How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem? On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. It had an 11.5” nectary, the place where flowers make nectar, the sweet liquid that insects and birds eat. How, he wondered, did insects pollinate the orchid? It took 130 years to find the answer. After experiments, he made a prediction