Plants Webquest
Everyone loves to get a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Sunflowers, roses, daffodils . . . it is hard to imagine our world without these colorful fixtures. But where do they come from? Do they just magically pop out of the ground every spring? Just like all other living things - people, butterflies, and leopards - plants have to reproduce
How, you may ask? Today you are going to be a botanist, someone who studies plants, to answer just that! Using the websites given below, you will investigate how plants repopulate, to give us color year after year.
Flower Parts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/life_cycles/play/
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/whatispollination.shtml
http://www.neok12.com/quiz/PLANTS04
After reviewing flower parts, visit the following websites that explain the process of fertilization and/or pollination. While researching, take notes on the process and choose your favorite pollinator. This information will be used in the final assignment of this webquest.
Fertilization Process and Pollinators
http://www.neok12.com/Pollination.htm
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/multimedia/uploads/alberta/seedsimp.swf
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/pollination-game.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/pollin5.html
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/whatispollination.shtml
Click on specific pollinators at the bottom of this page
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/index.shtml
How, you may ask? Today you are going to be a botanist, someone who studies plants, to answer just that! Using the websites given below, you will investigate how plants repopulate, to give us color year after year.
Flower Parts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/life_cycles/play/
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/whatispollination.shtml
http://www.neok12.com/quiz/PLANTS04
After reviewing flower parts, visit the following websites that explain the process of fertilization and/or pollination. While researching, take notes on the process and choose your favorite pollinator. This information will be used in the final assignment of this webquest.
Fertilization Process and Pollinators
http://www.neok12.com/Pollination.htm
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/multimedia/uploads/alberta/seedsimp.swf
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/pollination-game.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/pollin5.html
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/whatispollination.shtml
Click on specific pollinators at the bottom of this page
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/index.shtml