Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Observe a range of different flowers closely using magnifiers.
- Record observations using pencil and watercolour.
Activities
- Play a guessing game to introduce the new topic and help them understand why flowers are so amazing.
- Find out some interesting facts about flowers and the people who have hunted, studied and painted them.
- Learn about the work of the artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
- Closely observe a variety of flowers with magnifiers and record this in the form of a watercolour painting.
- Press flowers to preserve them.
- Create a model flower and begin to know and label the male and female parts within it.
Investigation - observation/analysing secondary sources
Study a variety of different flowers, making botanical paintings. Use hand lenses for close observation. Discover that flowers usually have male and female parts.
Vocabulary
Botany, botanist, botanical, petals, reproduction, male, female, stigma, style, stamens