Science - disecting flowers

Today we learned about different parts of flowers through disecting them. We asked ourselves question and we're able to answer them by cutting the flowers open and examining them close up using a magnifying glass. We discovered that inside a stem it isn't just hollow, it has sticky white sap inside. At the beginning of the lesson we held a competition about naming flower parts (we thought there were only 5 - stem, root, petal, leaf, seed). Through our lines of enquiry we learned that there are in fact many parts of a flower, such as: anther, stigma, receptacle (our knowledge has clearly grown!)