Let’s look at flowers
In this activity, students will look at flowers and identify the different reproductive parts.
By the end of this activity, students should be able to:
identify different parts of a flower and understand their functions
use some of the vocabulary of botany.
Cutaway kōwhai
Kōwhai flowers are bird-pollinated flowers. Other flowers have different shapes, colours and arrangements of parts, depending on what pollinates them. Some petals of one flower have been removed to reveal inside.
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introduction/background
what you need
what to do
extension ideas
student handout.
Related content
Flowers are not on plants just to make them look pretty. They are there as a vital part of a flowering plant’s life cycle. Not all plants have flowers, find out what flowering plants are and how they are different to other plants.
Activity ideas
Follow up the science ideas and concepts covered in this article with one, or more, of these activities below:
