Parts of a Flower Lesson

Intern: Nik Arnoldi

Date: March 5, 2013

Lesson/Activity Title: Parts of a Flower

Standards Addressed: Colorado Academic Standards, Science: 2. Life Science  Understand the characteristics and structure of living things, processes of life, and how living things interact with each other.

           

Purpose: To understand what Georgia O’Keeffe looked at and understand the purpose behind the flower.

Learning Objectives: Students will be able identify parts of a flower both on paper and with a real flower.

Materials: Flowers, Flower worksheets, Field journals, pencils, colored pencils

Introduction: With the students, I will discuss why flowers have evolved. I will then draw a flower on the board similar to the one in their worksheet. I will talk about the functions of each of the flower’s parts and with class participation; we will label all the parts on the worksheet and whiteboard.

Activity/Procedures: After we have labeled all the parts of a flower, I will pass out the daisies for the students to analyze. They will choose their flower, and then bring them to work on solo to try to figure out what each of the parts are and sketch them and label them.

Closure:  I will ask the students why this may be important to our unit. When responses are exhausted, I will share that it is helpful for an artist to understand what he/she is looking at to better capture its likeness accurately.

Differentiation/Adaptation –

1.      Drawing pictures for Student B, who is a visual learner, and she will also draw to help her understand the parts of a plant

2.      Student A, who hasn’t the patience to draw, may tape parts of the flower down to his field journal.

Assessment: Full color page of Parts of a Flower notes detailing what each part is that they could recognize, with drawings and/or studies of the flower.

Extensions:

1.      Use Parts of a Flower to further inform their acrylic painting at the end of the unit.

2.      Use the Parts of a Flower to determine the Floral Formula of the plant.