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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Schoolyard Field Guide and Flower Part Identification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity, learners observe plants in the schoolyard and record their observations and ideas in a science journal. They will learn the parts of a flower and make a detailed examination of a chosen part.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Great Plant Escape: Flower Parts

For Students 3rd - 8th
Peruse this colorful site and discover the various part of a flower.
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BBC

Bbc: Did You Know? Flowers

For Students 3rd - 8th
This BBC "Gardening with Children" section walks through the important process of pollination. Learn exactly what pollination is, along with pollination with and without insects. Finally, learn some unique facts about pollination and...
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Other

Florida Gardener: Flower Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the parts of a flower. Do all flowers have the same parts? Do all flowers reproduce in the same manner? Answers to these questions and more are found here, along with many defined terms.
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Science & Plants for Schools

Science & Plants for Schools: Parts of a Flower

For Students 4th - 9th
A detailed look at the parts of a plant and how plants reproduce.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Flowering Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the parts of a flower and the classification and evolution of flowering plants.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Plants: Flowers

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a 7-question multiple-choice quiz on the structure and functions of flowers.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Dissect a Flower [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lab activity where students carefully dissect a flower and learn about its different parts. Materials may require sharp dissection instruments. Includes extension activities and test preparation questions.
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Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: Sexual Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, from retired Harvard professor John W. Kimball, provides a detailed but understandable explanation of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Includes informative, well labelled illustrations.
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Other

Mendel Web: Flower Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a diagram of flower, followed by a focus on Gregor Mendel's experiments on a flowering species of the pea.
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Other

Zephyrus: Flower Reproduction

For Students 3rd - 8th
A good graphic overview of flowering plant reproduction and the specific parts of the plant responsible for that.
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Flower and Tree Reproduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the reproduction chapter from an online text, courtesy of the Forest Biology Department of Virginia Tech. Learn about trees, their flowers, and other details of their reproductive cycle.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Flower Anatomy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Flower Anatomy helps a student to visualize the floral parts. Students can disect the flower after they have viewed and identified all parts. A student can take the dissected parts and create a word wall using colored paper or posterboard.
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Ohio State University

Ohio State University: Plant Part Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
A useful resource for working with plants. Many illustrations enhance the clarity of the definitions, which can be accessed by clicking on the various links provided.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Diagramando a La Ciencia

For Students 3rd - 5th
Fun interactive Spanish site where students will be able to review science vocabulary related with the earth, atmosphere, respiratory system, flower parts and fish anatomy. It provides the English version and different levels of difficulty.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Investigating the Structure of the Flower

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This lesson plan has students make a model of a flower's structure using clay, toothpicks, and construction paper.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Plant Parts

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the basic parts of a plant and their jobs.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Pollination

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn the parts of a flower and how a plant gets pollinated. Includes video, songs, diagrams, and lesson plans.
Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic: Science Labelling Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In a series of five interactive science games, students first study labeled diagrams to learn the names of the Earth's layers, of a flower's parts, of a fish's anatomy, of the human respiratory system, and of layers of the atmosphere....
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape Parts of a Seed

For Students 2nd - 6th
Help Detective Le Plant discover how a seed grows into a plant. Students will learn to describe a seed's structure and what's needed for seed growth.
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Other

Middle School Science: Flower Dissection [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
In this lab experiment site, you will learn the parts of the flower, compare male and female anatomy, determine if the male or female parts are longer and what advantage that might have in fertilization.
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Other

Wake Forest University: Angiosperms Reproduction/life Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative resource describes the advances that angiosperms possess over conifers. It also looks at the parts of a flower, how fruit develops and the life cycle of an angiosperm.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sequence Flower Reports

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
This is a hands-on book report project. It will be an extension activity that occurs after the reading of the stories The Secret Gardens and/ or The Gardener. Paper Flowers will be designed and put together by each student. Story events...
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Parts of a Flower

For Students 3rd - 8th
An illustrated diagram featuring the male and female parts of a flower.

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