One of our lessons this week was on the parts of a buttercup. Instead of just reading about it in a book, and look at the illustrations, I decided we should go on a neighborhood walk and bring back a bouquest of buttercups to observe and dissect.
Well, we saw a bunch of dandelions, but after a good walk through our neighborhood, here are the fruits of our labor…
So, we had one buttercup to work with! We looked at the parts through a magnifying glass. The parts we learned about are:
- stem- draws nutrients and water up to the flower.
- sepals – the protective covering when the flower is a bud. The speals separate as the flower blooms. You can see five sepals under the petals of a fully bloomed flower.
- petals – the colorful part of the flower that attracts bees and birds. Surrounds the pistil and stamen.
- pistil-holds the seeds. Surrounded by stamen.
- stamen-holds the pollen. The pistil and the stemen are needed for reproduction of the flower.
Our "budding" scientists at work…
Love those pics!