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Do and Learn

Structure of a Flower

Using your imagination, draw each whorl of a fl ower separately in the boxes given below. Every
part of a whorl must be clearly visible. Fill suitable colours and label them.

Calyx Corolla Androecium

Project Time

Using the Internet, collect more
information on pollination, its
types and agents of pollination.
Gynoecium your teacher.
Prepare a report and show it to

Group Activity
Outdoor Activity
Divide students in four groups. Each

Visit a garden in your locality. Write the names group has to demonstrate the process
of diff erent fl owers that you see with the help of of pollination by wind, insect, bird,
the gardener or the elders present in the garden. water or animal. Students can prepare
Observe the fl owers carefully and divide them into two a play or make models to demonstrate
categories—bisexual fl owers and monosexual fl owers. the process. Each group can choose
Also name the part of the fl ower missing in any three agents of pollination.
the monosexual fl owers.

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