Fruit and Flower

 I am giving you a handout which is like a  colouring book showing the structures of flowers, leaves and fruit.  It is from the "Botany Colouring Book", a resource for university level botany courses.

Use this as a reference.

FLOWER and FRUIT LAB
Go into the school garden and find the following specimens.  Bring them back for dissection and observation under the dissecting microscope.

Draw each specimen.  2 marks
Identify the flower type and label the parts.  2 marks
Write one interesting observation you notice  1 mark

 Each drawing should be at least a half page.  

Use a blank paper to draw your observations.

SPECIMENS: FOR EACH NUMBER BELOW, USE HALF A PAGE TO DRAW THE FOLLOWING: 
1.  Find a small HEAD type of flower  and draw it (simlar to a sunflower) . It ought to have a disk flower and ray flower within the head.  Observations:  Count the disc flowers in your specimen.  What is the advantage of this kind of flower? 

2.Draw these specimens

    a.  Find a branching type of flower, such as a SPIKE type of flower
    b.   Find a BRANCHING type of flower like a head type

    c.   Find any other type of BRANCHING type. 

3.  Find a BASIC FLOWER.  Is it hypogynous, perigynous or epigynous?  Draw it and label its parts


4. Fruit specimens:  Classify these according to your colouring book reference.  Examine them under the microsope. label any parts you see according to the reference.  Draw the following:

a. strawberry
b. zucchni/cucumber

c. pineapple

d. bean

FOSSIL LAB

 We will go over these slides on Geological Time 

And this is some background info on how fossils are formed. please do this worksheet    using the link here for finding the answers

Geological Time Lab

USE THE DRAWING PAPER AND MAKE COLOUR AND INK DRAWINGS OF SPECIMENS

Station 1 . ROW 1 Three drawings  

Draw two samples of Sandstone rock and one sample of shale.  Answer the following questions
1.  How is sandstone formed?  Explain how a fossil might be formed in Sandstone
2.  How is shale  formed?  Explain how a fossil can form in shale

Station 2.  Known Fossils  Three drawings in total
A.  COMPARATIVE TEACHING COLLECTION ROW 2
Photograph all  fossils . MAKE ONE DRAWING which includes  one fossil and one modern day equivalent.   Label the drawings with the descriptions shown

B.  FOSSIL BOX and fossil bucket.  ROW 3   Identify 7 and MAKE TWO DRAWINGS

1. photograph  7 fossils from this box and identify them.

2. Make two drawings: 

a. make a careful drawing of one.. 

b. draw the organism it came from using an internet search.

c.   Tell me what era it came from as well as its environmental conditions.  for example, if your fossil is a SHARK TOOTH, then the organism it comes from is a SHARK and it's environment is marine.

Station 3. ROW 4  UNKNOWN FOSSILS. Choose 3 to draw
CHOOSE 3 fossils to identify.  photograph them and give evidence that you can identify the fossil using the known fossils. 

EVALUATION.   34 marks total

fossil worksheet 10 marks - you completed the fossil worksheet and uploaded it with your NAME on it

lab portion total 24 marks 

21-24 marks - you photograph all the fossils and you make drawings 

 3 drawings for station 1

3 drawings for station 2 and 

3 drawings for station 3. 

 You complete all your observations.    

16-20 - you completed all the drawings and it is not in colour .  Your drawings look great.  Or, you have beautiful drawings but did not complete all the drawings for each station.  

10-14 - This looks great and you need to complete the work

0-9 - this work is incomplete.