Plant Parts

This week in science we talked about parts of a plant. Monday, we watched our Parts of a Plant BrainPop.

Tuesday, we did a parts of a plant labeling activity in our science journals. The kids cut out 6 different words, and we read them one at a time as a group. The kids had to decide where the words went on their paper and which word we did not need.

Wednesday, we made a plant parts flip book. The kids folded and cut their papers to have 4 flaps, wrote words on each flap, then built a flower behind the flaps to show each different part of the plant as you raise each flap.

Friday, the kids dissected flowers and sorted the parts onto different mats at their tables. After sorting the different parts, we looked at a flower petal and leaf underneath a microscope and saw the cells that make up those parts of the plant!

More plants ... Sort of!

This past week in Science we labeled the different parts of plant in our Science Journals. The kids made flap books, placed different parts of the plant under each flap, then labeled those parts.

We also took mixed up parts of plants and put them in the correct order, then labeled those!

He drew the plant's needs after he ordered and labeld!

Thursday, we dissected flowers and looked at them underneath our microscope!

First we looked at our plant and figured out what it was.

Next, we looked in the soil for the roots and separated the roots and soil from the rest of the plant.

He found a lot of roots!

Then, we separated the leaves from the stem.

We looked at one of the leaves underneath the microscope and saw the cells in the leaf! After we looked at the leaf we looked at the stem underneath the microscope. We noticed they were both green.

 Next, we separated the petals on the flower and looked at one of the petals underneath the microscope. The flower petals cells were purple, white and yellow.

After we looked at the petal we looked at the pistil of the flower (which was VERY hard to get underneath the microscope!)