Task 4b

Materials and tools for a working group:

• magnifying glass, flower, white paper (e.g. 1pc of office paper)

The teacher starts the activity by discussing with the pupils about flowers – what is their function? Why are they created on the plant? What are they made of? What is their construction inside? Further, he provides pupils with magnifiers. Their task will be to examine the construction of a flower (they can get samples from the school yard). They do not observe flowers directly on the plant, but carefully remove it from the plant and observe the flower on a table on white background (sheet of paper). Pupils will try to draw a flower and name the individual parts. Teacher helps to name the parts correctly, if needed.

The teacher presents flowers of different types of plants. Subsequently, pupils can compare the flowers and write down common and different features. It thus makes it clear to the pupils of the variety of flowers. After observation, the teacher presents (on the Internet or in an encyclopedia) how a fruit is developed out of a flower. Pupils should be familiarized with function of the flower on the plant as well as the process of developing the fruit from the flower (flower → fruit). They should also know that there are seeds in the fruit.