Lesson Plan: Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants Science
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to identify and describe the parts of a flowering plant that are involved in sexual reproduction.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify the reproductive parts of a flower from simple diagrams and descriptions, including the carpel, stamen, stigma, style, ovule, and pollen,
- interpret diagrams of floral whorls (calyx, corolla, androecium, and gynoecium) and the structures contained within them,
- know that flowers reproduce by pollination,
- identify the sex of a flower from provided diagrams,
- recognize key structures from provided diagrams (e.g., fused and separate sepals or petals).
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- organisms being able to reproduce sexually or asexually.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- the details of pollination, including the pollen tube and fusion of gamete nuclei,
- the formation of seeds or their dispersal.
