Cross Pollination and Parts of a Flower

Today we went over parts of a flower and pollinated our Wisconsin Fast Plants.

Here is an example image of the labeled parts.

Here are some images of today's class.

Macro to Micro Update - December 9th Week

We have been immersed in growing Wisconsin Fast Plants, corn and bean seeds.
Our Wisconsin Fast Plants have just sprouted flowers and will be cross-pollinating them this week.
The corn and bean will be used to compare monocot and dicot plants.

Here is the Lesson #9 Reading Link

We also just received our Cabbage White Butterfly Eggs and have placed these on the radish leaves.  We should see the larva emerge soon!  Here are the eggs under the digital microscope.

Monday November 18th - Wisconsin Fast Plants

Students were focused and working hard today as every science group built a planter and sowed both Wisconsin Fast Plants and radish seeds. We will be using these plants to examine the role of water and minerals in the growing system, look at at plant's life cycle, and explore the plant's connection to the cabbage white butterfly. We're hoping to see Fast Plant sprouts by the end of this week!

Please go to this link to read more about Wisconsin Fast Plants. Students should be reading "Nutritional Needs of Plants" on pages 47-49.

Thursday September 5th

Today we reviewed the Mystery Box Activity and allowed students to sketch and discuss what they felt was on the bottom of the cube.  Here is a look into some of their work:

We followed up this activity with a reading on Asteroids and dinosaurs: unexpected twists to an unfinished story,  explaining Walter Alverez exploration into the extinction of dinosaurs.  All of this draws out practices that describe "good" practices in science.