Syllabus of Garden Nature- Study 



Cleveland Public Schools 

 Division of Educational Extension, Garden Department 



Roland W. Guss 



Bulbs and Window Plants 



March 

 Flowers and Seeds (How Flowers Make New Plants) 



For Grades i to 4 

 Questions for Thought (Attractiveness of Flowers. Flowers and 

 Insects) 



Why do you like the flowers? 



What do you like about them? 



What besides people seem to like the flowers? 



Find out whether the children have observed bees and butter- 

 flies visiting the flowers? 



How do they help the flowers? 



How do the flowers help them? 



When some of the flower parts wither or fall away, is that 

 the end of the flower's life? 

 Observations and Interpretations : 



Flower Parts. — Have the children examine and see the parts 

 of flowers of tulips, narcissi (daffodils, etc.) or of geraniums or 

 other plants in the room — fresh and "going to seed." 



Compare the "Seed boxes" in fresh and fading flowers. HP 



Make cross-sections of enlarged seed-boxes and find and show 

 the seeds forming inside. 



In such flowers other parts are withering or have^fallen away 

 because their work is done. 



Uses or work of Flower Parts. 



(Grades 3 and 4) 



What work? — Teach that the stamens, with "pollen boxes," 

 furnish pollen (find some) to make the seeds grow. 



The colored parts (calyx and corolla), their fragrance, stripes, 

 etc. (like sign boards) advertise the presence of nectar and pollen 

 to insects, the carriers of pollen. 



(Flowers yielding more abundant, powdery pollen may be shown 

 if twigs of alder or poplar are placed in bottles of water till the 

 buds open. 



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