The Life Cycle of Plants

Dear Parents and Students,

Over the next several weeks, we will be focusing on Hawaii Content Standard 4 in Science. This standard deals with life and environmental sciences--two of my favorites branches of science! Specifically, we will be learning about plants and their life cycles.

First, this week, we will become familiar with the parts of a flower. So, I have selected three Internet sites that have fun activities designed to help you learn the parts of flowers.

1. At the Life Cycles site, you will find a picture of a beautiful flower. Learn about the life cycle of a plant by sorting the parts of a flower, discovering what each part does and how in contributes to the life cycle of a living thing.
   
   Your task is to virtually dissect the flower into the following parts: petals, sepals, nectaries, carpel, stamen, and receptacle. Do you think you can do that? I bet you can!
   
   After virtually dissecting the plants, click the Label button and see if you can label the following plant parts: petal, sepal, nectary, style, stigma, ovary, ovule, anther, filament, and receptacle. Do you think you can do that? I bet you can!
   
   Finally, click on the Quiz link and see if you can earn a perfect score. That will be an indication that you truly understand and can identify each part of a flower.
   
2. Enjoy the beautiful photographs and paintings as you review the Parts of a Flower in the video below.
   
   
   
   
3. At the Great Plant Escape site, help Detective LePlant, Bud, and Sprout solves the mysteries of plant life. Match each clue with the part of the plant that it describes.

Well, what do you think? Which activity was the most fun for you? From which activity did you learn the most? Let me know.
I will be back next week with more learning activities that support your classroom instruction.
A hui ho kakou!
Ms. Ray