Showing posts with label dissecting flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dissecting flowers. Show all posts

Saturday, August 17, 2013

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: