In our science lessons we have been exploring how plants reproduce - children learned that a flower was not just a flower, but instead it was made up of lots of smaller parts with lots of different functions.

Children labelled the parts of the flower on their diagrams before having a look at a real flower!

Some of the parts were easy to see right away - the petals and the anther, for example. Other parts required us to dissect the plant. 
 

We compared two types of flower to observe whether there were differences in the parts across different flowers - there were differences! The dandelion had longer anthers to get more pollen onto the insects as they passed through it's long, tubular petals.

Science MS 02.03.23