Plant Dissections

Over the past two weeks we have been thinking and learning about plants and our class garden. 

We have decide to plant a vegetable and herb garden. We had a vote and decided on: silver beet, parsley, carrots and broccoli. We will be planting these tasty vegetables and herbs next week.

Yesterday we learned about an acrostic poem called MRS GREN. We discovered that MRS GREN stood for everything that a living things needs in order to survive (including plants). We also talked about and labelled the parts of a plant and today we learned what those parts did e.g. did you know that petals are for attracting insects and bees to the plant? In the afternoon we acted like 'scientists' because we dissected some plants that we had brought in from home. We separated each part of the plant into the following sections: petal, stem, leaf, ovary, anther, roots, and sepal. We then used the microscopes to view each part of the plant up close.

  

Check out our 'Inquiry' blog to see our photos from the microscopes!