Dissecting flowers

It's always great to clear up any misunderstandings or misconceptions during a science lesson - flowers have petals not pedals - those belong on a bike! I'm sure glad we cleared that one up.

For our first exploring session, we used magnifying glasses to look at a variety of flowers that Mrs Watson kindly brought in to us.  We considered and discussed questions that got us really taking a closer look and tapping in to what we already know about flowers or what we think we know!

For our second session we kicked off with a class brainstorm sharing our knowledge of the different flower parts.  It was apparent that we knew flowers had petals, a stem, stamen and stigmas and pollen.  That's all the parts right?  Well so we thought, until we compared our brainstorm with a labelled flower diagram.

Take a look at our pic collages (ipad app) of what other flower parts we discovered as we carefully dissected our flowers: