I really enjoyed this project. I actually included my two nieces and my eldest son in this activity. They are ages 3, 7, and 5. We had a lot of fun taking flowers apart and sorting the different parts of each that we found. I did the Oxeye daisy dissection with my 7 year old niece. We then played with the ThingLink site and she helped add images and choose labels for that plant. I had a lot of fun building images using ThingLink, but oh wow did I struggle with the sharing part on that! I just could not figure it out, so I took a screen shot of each of my images created in ThingLink and made a collage of sorts in google slides. I hope the links work and you get an idea of what I created.
Fuchsia Plant – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E5V51OeBCban9QU7DrVQdkdG8Oss6MCs-Bs5Ze6MVXg/edit?usp=sharing
Nasturtium Dissection – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PrFHkI_4GB0mHXb2QPdVipFbvQwrAGS5fPLXrCzM3lg/edit?usp=sharing
Yellow Squash Dissection – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VIGYSknpOLDjeWCdwjbMv0xHR8uDqwQYA1tBsykTlz8/edit?usp=sharing
Oxeye Daisy Dissection – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kggY7lSJwxonXpDZlBcGge-of8R-Ok2wMGo3-Oj83E4/edit?usp=sharing
This is the first link from ThingLink. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1736857752300421797
This is the second link from ThingLink. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1736848983185162917
This is the third link from ThingLink. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1736619711094850213
This is the fourth and final link from ThingLink. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1736198183043728037
Amazing work Jennifer! Wow! If you ever want to get into botany, I think you have a great eye for this and are a great teacher! Your kids will cruise through science for sure. Well done. The photography is extraordinary as well. Wow!
I had to laugh on the Nasturtium sepals though… 5 sepals and a ‘tail’. That was cute. This is actually the nectar spur and is concealing where the nectar sits. We used to used collected these and cut a short piece off of the spur and suck the nectar out of these, delicious!
Here is a drawing with the nectar spur cut in longitudinal section, from Alamy.com https://www.alamy.com/the-picture-shows-nasturtium-flower-which-is-cut-through-the-middle-to-show-the-spur-part-and-nectar-part-petals-filaments-stigma-with-ovary-contai-image244599774.html